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and space stocks, issues a news and trading alert for Rocket Lab
Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB)
Investor speculation in the sector is still high following the
Artemis II mission and SpaceX filing its IPO.
One of investors’ favorites, Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), is trading up this morning, currently at $73.12 +2.50 (+3.54%)
on volume of over 10.7 million shares.
Rocket Lab today introduced a new electric satellite thruster
designed for high-volume production to meet the growing demand for
reliable satellite propulsion across commercial and national
security constellations.
Rocket Lab’s in-house designed and manufactured electric
propulsion system, named Gauss, features a Hall thruster, a power
processing unit, and a propellant management assembly. Recognizing
the importance of not only bringing a new high-performance electric
propulsion system to market but also making it reliably available at
scale, Rocket Lab has already established a high-volume Gauss
production line designed to produce more than 200 thrusters per
year, ensuring the company can supply thrusters on demand in large
quantities. Electric propulsion thrusters have historically proven
extremely difficult to produce in high volumes, causing supply chain
fragility for national security and commercial constellation
operators alike. Rocket Lab has leveraged extensive propulsion
experience, as well as the proven ability to manufacture critical
satellite subsystems in high volumes, to finally deliver an electric
propulsion solution in the rapidly growing quantities needed by the
global space industry.
Rocket Lab founder and CEO Sir Peter Beck said,
“Proliferated constellations are now the norm for commercial
and national security space users, but the propulsion systems
needed to maneuver these spacecraft in orbit have simply not been
reliably available at any kind of scale. Rocket Lab is solving
this bottleneck with Gauss. We’ve successfully scaled other
satellite components to thousands of units per year to meet the
market’s needs for volume and speed; now we’re giving
electric satellite propulsion the same treatment.”
The Gauss thruster is designed to produce a higher specific impulse
compared to traditional chemical propulsion systems, enabling it to
produce more thrust per unit of propellant and making it more
efficient for long-duration missions. Because of this high
efficiency, the Gauss thruster will allow spacecraft to carry less
propellant while still achieving high performance, making it ideal
for prolonged missions, such as deep space exploration and satellite
station-keeping within constellations.
In naming the thruster after Carl Friedrich Gauss, Rocket Lab
continues a long tradition of naming rocket and spacecraft engines
after renowned physicists. The Gauss thruster joins Rocket
Lab’s existing suite of propulsion systems, including the
Electron rocket’s Rutherford engine, the Neutron
rocket’s Archimedes engine, and the Electron Kick
Stage’s Curie engine.
Rocket Lab’s Chief Engineer of Special Projects, Shaun
O’Donnell, added: “When we identify a supply chain
constraint affecting our customers and indeed the wider global
space industry, we often look to acquire existing technologies
that are high-performing but have struggled to scale production.
We explored this as an option for Gauss but ultimately determined
we could build the best, high-performance product in house and
scale it to meet industry needs ourselves. Propulsion is, after
all, embedded in Rocket Lab’s DNA. With Rutherford, we built
the world’s first 3D-printed orbital rocket engine and have
now launched 850 of them to space. Our Curie engines have provided
precision maneuverability to enable the successful deployment of
more than 200 spacecraft in orbit, including enabling a mission to
the Moon and powering innovative Earth re-entry missions. Gauss is
the next major step in Rocket Lab’s extensive propulsion
heritage and a key enabler of the constellations we build for our
customers and for ourselves.”
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