Next Rocket Lab launch: satellite for US Missile Defence, moon prep
9 Feb, 2021 09:27 PM
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Rocket Lab s Moon mission: The NZ-based staff describe how they ll get a NASA satellite into lunar orbit. Video / Brett Phibbs / Jed Bradley
Rocket Lab s Moon mission: The NZ-based staff describe how they ll get a NASA satellite into lunar orbit. Video / Brett Phibbs / Jed Bradley
Rocket Lab s next launch will carry another military payload, and see further refinement of the Photon platform that will help ferry a NASA satellite to the moon later this year.
The payload for the They Go Up So Fast mission scheduled for a mid-March launch from Mahia, will include, a technology demonstrator for the US Army s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) through launch integration and program management services provider, TriSept, Rocket Lab said in a statement (see full manifest foot of story).
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Shandong province leads the charge as utilization rates drop globally on COVID
China s fuel refining capacity continues to rise, with the average utilization rate of China s independent refineries in Shandong province standing at around 70.4 percent in 2020, up by about 6 percentage points from 64.2 percent in 2019, despite the sluggish global refinery demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to S&P Global Platts, an energy industry news and data provider.
The rise in capacity is attributed to low crude oil prices, which led to refiners keeping their throughput high, and the strong economic activity rebound in China, thanks to effective domestic control of the pandemic.
Refining capacity to increase Share CLOSE Workers carry out tasks relating to construction of a refinery project at a petrochemical industry base in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province. [Photo by Wang Jianmin/For China Daily]
Shandong province leads the charge as utilization rates drop globally on COVID
China s fuel refining capacity continues to rise, with the average utilization rate of China s independent refineries in Shandong province standing at around 70.4 percent in 2020, up by about 6 percentage points from 64.2 percent in 2019, despite the sluggish global refinery demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to S&P Global Platts, an energy industry news and data provider.