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W-2 (Varda)

Rocket Lab’s 2nd reentry class spacecraft for Varda operating on-orbit supporting payloads for AFRL + NASA

January 16, 2025

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced its second Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries, Inc. is successfully operating on orbit — the mission launched on January 14, from […]

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Varda’s W-2 spacecraft launched to orbit with SpaceX with Koonibba Test Range up next

January 14, 2025

Varda Space Industries has announced the successful launch of the company’s second orbital processing spacecraft and re-entry capsule, W-2, which lifted off aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX from […]

Filed Under: AFRL, Agencies, Koonibba Test Range [Australia], Launch, Launch Agreement, Launch Facilities, Launch Management, Launch Services, Military, NASA Ames Research Center, News, SmallSat, SmallSat Builds, Smallsat Bus, Smallsat Deployment, SmallSat Design, Smallsat Development, Smallsat Launch, Smallsat Manufacturing, Smallsat Markets, Smallsat Modeling, Smallsat Payloads, smallsats, Southern Launch, Spacecraft Re-Entry, SpaceX Transporter-12 Mission, Vandenberg SFB, Varda Space Industries, W-2 (Varda) Tagged With: Featured

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