A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby E3 test stand. There was a grass fire where Archimedes engines undergo testing.

Rocket Lab scrubbed the planned Feb. 25 launch of its HASTE suborbital rocket, which will send a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle up for the U.S. military. No new target date has been announced.

Mission highlight: ‘That’s Not A Knife' Rocket Lab is targeting Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 3:00 p.m. EST for the launch of its HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) rocket from Launch ...

Rocket Lab (RKLB) is launching its fourth military hypersonic test mission in under six months. Rocket Lab is expanding defense work to generate steady revenue as commercial profitability remains ...

Work on the production floor at Rocket Lab’s Engine Development Complex in Long Beach halted on Friday afternoon, Jan. 9, as more than 200 employees cheered and welcomed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

"We are in the part of the program where we are doing very nasty things to the engine." We have gotten a little lazy watching SpaceX's almost perfect record of flying these things, almost forgetting ...