Researchers from Rocket Lab launched successfully three high tech satellites for the U.S. Air Force, which is the second Defense mission in the last few months. This project was launched from New Zealand. They created a large craft capable to orbit planet Earth and gather information.

Presently, these three satellites have more than 180 kg, each is 17 meters in height, Researchers from Rocket Lab explained.

Associates connected with the Falcon Orbital Debris Experiment are now helping researchers and scientists to evaluate the effectiveness of tracking space junk and ground-based systems. Other projects such as the Space Plug-and-Play Architecture Research will test how this system works on avionics and other gear.

These systems are also very functional and small in size. Rocket Lab experts compare this system to SPARC-1 system before.

The largest and heaviest among satellites is Harbinger; it makes up most of the total mass. Harbinger is a small satellite made for commercial use built by York Space Systems. Developers tested the ability of an experimental commercial system to help government systems as well. Rocket Lab researchers called this system STP-27RD, and they described the entire mission step by step.

All three satellites are made for the Air Force's Space Test Program and they are developed with function to search for space junk and other space objects. Rocket Lab scientists will name rockets as well. Some people suggest that names should be inspired by previous similar Space Test Programs from Kirtland Air Force Base located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The last launch was the sixth launch of the two-stage project called Electron, which includes also test flights and space scanning. During March, the Electron mission launched a spacecraft called R3D2 for U.S. Defense Department as a part of high tech Research Projects making and launching experimental satellites. The Spacecraft is equipped with an ultrathin antenna capable to improve communication between smaller satellites.

If the mission is successful, Electron satellites will be capable to fly more precisely. Other missions waiting to be launched are also part of Rocket Lab project.

When the time is right, Rocket Lab missions will fly once every week or maybe even more often. The main goal is to improve access to space by using the Electron satellites, many of them weighing more than 250 kg and the entire project will cost more than 5 million dollars.

Not all of these missions will start in New Zealand. Some of them will be developed in California or Middle-Atlantic Spaceport in Virginia and plan is to make them all running before the end of 2020.

All these projects are sponsored by the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Academy. The Swedish government is also a part of SPARC-1 mission together with U.S. Air Force Research Department and Space Vehicles Research Center. This is where Harbinger was developed and Rocket Lab-U.S. Army satellite system.