{"id":473451,"date":"2026-02-17T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:01:10","slug":"rocket-lab-to-launch-defense-rocket-test-mission-from-wallops-island-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473451\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab to launch defense rocket test mission from Wallops Island | Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. &#8211; Rocket Lab announced that it will launch it will launch the latest hypersonic test mission for the Department of Defense&#8217;s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab says its HASTE rocket will launch &#8220;no earlier than late February&#8221; from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 within the\u00a0Virginia Spaceport Authority\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island.<\/p>\n<p>The company says its HASTE launch, dubbed \u2018That\u2019s Not A Knife,\u201d will deploy DART AE, a scramjet-powered aircraft developed by Australian aerospace engineering firm Hypersonix.<\/p>\n<p>This would be\u00a0the company\u2019s fourth hypersonic test mission in under six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. &#8211; Rocket Lab announced that it will launch it will launch the latest hypersonic test&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[10830,35479,25433,33401,79,193,219547,219546,26243],"class_list":{"0":"post-473451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-department-of-defense","9":"tag-haste","10":"tag-rocket-lab","11":"tag-rocket-launch","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-test-mission","15":"tag-virginia-spaceport-authority","16":"tag-wallops-island"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}