Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab is poised to send up its first batch of spacecraft for NASA

Just a month after pulling off its first commercial launch to orbit, small satellite launcher Rocket Lab is ready to put tiny probes into space again. The company’s small Electron rocket is slated to take off again from New Zealand sometime in the next week. And this time, the company’s client is none other than NASA.
The plan is to launch 13 research satellites as part of NASA’s ELaNa-19 mission. The spacecraft going up on this flight are all derived from CubeSats, a type of