Electron on pad
The second Electron rocket, dubbed "Still Testing," is scheduled to launch during a 10-day window that opens Dec. 8 from the company's New Zealand test site.

Rocket Lab announced July 10 that it has selected four potential locations for an American launch site for its Electron rocket, with a final decision to come in August.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...