Article: LOW-COST SUBORBITAL PAYLOAD LAUNCHES FROM SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.

Article: Rocket delay
Waikato Times;  November 30, 2009 ;     488 words ... ... Peter Beck and his team from Rocket Lab the chance to fix the aerocoupler ... disconnect automatically, but Rocket Lab director Mark Rocket said it appeared the connection ... happens in this game". The Rocket Lab team have been on the island ...

Article: New Zealand joins space race.(Aerospace News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 3, 2009 ;     354 words ... ... launched a rocket into space. New Zealand's Rocket Lab launched, the 6-meter, 60-kg rocket Atea ... s not trivial sending something into space," Rocket Lab director Mark Rocket told NZPA. "This is a huge technological leap ...

Article: Looking up
The Southland Times;  December 5, 2009 ;     518 words ... ... a "special payload" placed inside Atea- 1 by Rocket Lab director Mark Rocket, who hoped to put it on internet auction site ... Rocket who changed his name from Stevens and his Rocket Lab colleagues, technical director Peter Beck and ...

Article: Mercury rising
Waikato Times;  December 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... a "special payload" placed inside Atea- 1 by Rocket Lab director Mark Rocket, who hoped to put it on internet auction site ... Rocket - who changed his name from Stevens - and his Rocket Lab colleagues, technical director Peter Beck and ...

Article: Kiwis blast into space with a roar
Waikato Times;  December 1, 2009 ;     504 words ... ... minutes, then 10 minutes more, the launch happened quickly, and just ahead of the coming rain. At 2.23pm, Rocket Lab's Mark Rocket announced "we are going for launch everyone". Then, with senior engineer Nikhil Raghu, they went through ...

Article: Booster found
The Press;  December 2, 2009 ;     240 words ... ... fisherman about half an hour by boat from Great Mercury Island, off the Coromandel coast, yesterday morning. Rocket Lab director Mark Rocket said the booster would provide valuable data. The payload had not been found.

Article: EDWARDS REBUILDS TEST STATION\Rocket lab standing ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 10, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Directorate - more commonly known as the rocket lab - hope to complete the project this fall ... years," said Karner, director of the rocket lab. "A major impetus is to drive down ... business is coming at a time when the rocket lab, like other military units, is being ...