[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> [[Hardware]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> Lightning ## Summary Rocket Lab’s spacecraft designed for a 12+ year orbital lifespan in LEO, delivers high-power and high radiation tolerance, incorporating redundancy in critical subsystems. This ~3 kW bus is ideal for high operational duty cycle telecommunications and remote sensing applications. Lightning can be launched on Neutron and other medium and heavy launch vehicles. Lightning is based on the same design as the custom spacecraft Rocket Lab developed for [[Globalstar]] and is the basis for the Company’s bus for the [[Space Development Agency (SDA)]]. ![[Pasted image 20250703175655.png]] ## Missions | Mission | Status | Quantity | | ------------------------------------ | ----------- | -------- | | [[SDA Tranche 2 - Transport Layer]] | In Progress | 18 | | [[Globalstar (MDA) Satellite Buses]] | In Progress | 17 | ## Spacecraft 1. [[#Space Development Agency (SDA) T2TL Transport Layer Beta T2TL Transport Layer Beta|T2TL Transport Layer Beta]] 2. [[#Globalstar Globalstar M104 - 120 (Globalstar-3) Bus Globalstar M104 - 120 (Globalstar-3) Bus|Globalstar M104 - 120 (Globalstar-3) Bus]] ### [[Space Development Agency (SDA)#T2TL Transport Layer Beta|T2TL Transport Layer Beta 'Scorpio']] ![[Space Development Agency (SDA)#T2TL Transport Layer Beta]] ### [[Globalstar#Globalstar M104 - 120 (Globalstar-3) Bus|Globalstar M104 - 120 (Globalstar-3) Bus]] ![[Globalstar#Globalstar M104 - 120 (Globalstar-3) Bus]]