By Katherine Hamilton
Rocket Lab signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force to launch a rocket-based system experiment.
The spacecraft maker said Thursday the deal was for its Neutron rocket in a point-to-point transportation experiment. The mission is scheduled for a return-to-Earth launch on Neutron no earlier than 2026, it said.
Rocket Lab has also on-ramped the Neutron to a program with the Defense Department. The company received a $5 million task order as part of that deal to perform an assessment demonstrating its approach to mission assurance.
In April, it obtained the Defense Department's hypersonic accelerator suborbital test electron launch contract, which is set to launch no earlier than the first quarter of 2026.
Write to Katherine Hamilton at katherine.hamilton@wsj.com
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