2010 / Dec 2010
Rocket Lab / captured 23 July 2011 from http://www.rocketlab.co.nz/rocket-lab-news.html
December 2010 – Rocket Lab was awarded a US contract from the Operationally Responsive Space Office (ORS) to study low cost international alternatives. Included in this study is a 640,000Ns booster, a miniature avionics system and a launch vehicle to place small mass satellites into polar and low Earth orbits.
The quote is the release as captured. Not a rklb.report rewrite. Not affiliated with Rocket Lab.