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HASTE

Rocket Lab suborbital Electron variant for hypersonic flight testing.

by Rocket Lab · Unveiled Apr 17, 2023

Limited fieldingLaunch vehicleAirFirst flightJun 17, 2023
Rocket Lab HASTE on the launch pad for the Prometheus Run hypersonic test mission

Photo: Rocket Lab · Editorial use (company media kit) · Resized and reencoded as WebP without additional crop or retouching. This is HASTE Flight 75, not an orbital Electron launch.

Milestones2023
  1. UnveiledHASTE formally introduced, confirmed
  2. First flightFirst HASTE mission, confirmed

Suborbital derivative of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket that carries hypersonic test payloads for U.S. and allied government programs such as MACH-TB and DIU's HyCAT.

Timeline2

  1. UnveiledConfirmed

    HASTE formally introduced

    SourcesRocket Lab

  2. First flightConfirmed

    First HASTE mission

    Launched for Leidos under the MACH-TB hypersonic test program.

    SourcesRocket Lab

Solid entries are confirmed, outlined reported, dashed estimated or still to come; dotted italic entries are speculative. Dates show only the precision the sources give.

Sources2

  1. 1.
    CompanyRocket Lab Signs Deal with Leidos to Launch Four HASTE Missions

    Rocket Lab · Sep 12, 2023 · Supports: System, System milestone

    “HASTE offers true commercial testing capability at a fraction of the cost of current full-scale tests.”
  2. 2.
    CompanyHASTE formally introduced

    Rocket Lab · Apr 17, 2023 · Supports: System milestone

    “today formally introduced the HASTE rocket”

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