Rocket Lab
Private aerospace manufacturer and small satellite launch service provider.
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How Rocket Lab compares
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Elon Musk's private space company
John says Rocket Lab is duking it out with SpaceX and is the second most launched US rocket annually.
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John says Rocket Lab is duking it out with SpaceX and is the second most launched US rocket annually.
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"If you're doing exactly what SpaceX, Blue, Rocket Lab, Stoke, ULA, and others are doing in industry, except you're doing it on 50-year-old shuttle hardware, you're going to lose that workforce."
Listed alongside SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke, and ULA as companies already doing commercial launch well
"In New Zealand we have the Rocket Lab vehicles. We can launch anywhere."
One of multiple global launch options alongside SpaceX, Indian, and Chinese rockets
"Rocket Lab, they are duking it out with SpaceX. The move represents yet more vertical integration at Rocket Lab. It now designs satellites and aerospace components, serves the defense primes, has the second most launched US rocket annually."
Competing with SpaceX which operates a 10,000 satellite fleet
"Rocket Lab enters the arena with SpaceX. The move represents yet more vertical integration at Rocket Lab. Congrats to everyone at Rocket Lab and Aridium. Deal makes a ton of sense."
Competing with SpaceX's 10,000 satellite fleet
"Rocket Lab today is worth 67 billion. It's a busy time in the market for getting mass from Earth to space."
Listed alongside SpaceX as launch companies
What creators say
"He finds stuff that everybody thinks is crazy like Rocket Lab that then becomes, you know, an enormous business."
More from Sameer Dholakia →"If you're doing exactly what SpaceX, Blue, Rocket Lab, Stoke, ULA, and others are doing in industry, except you're doing it on 50-year-old shuttle hardware, you're going to lose that workforce."
More from Jared Isaacman →+4 more mentions from Jared
"We're not the only game in town. There's SpaceX and Blue Origin and Rocket Lab."
"There's SpaceX and Blue Origin and Rocket Lab. How do you attract the talent and retain it?"
"In New Zealand we have the Rocket Lab vehicles. We can launch anywhere."
More from Antonio Li →"Rocket Lab — we were the first investors. We put in I think $5 million for a third of the company. It was a company in New Zealand. No one was paying attention to it. And we owned 28% of the company when it went public and the company is now worth..."
More from Samir Kaji →
"Rocket Lab, they are duking it out with SpaceX. The move represents yet more vertical integration at Rocket Lab. It now designs satellites and aerospace components, serves the defense primes, has the second most launched US rocket annually."
More from John Coogan →+1 more mention from John
"Rocket Lab enters the arena with SpaceX. The move represents yet more vertical integration at Rocket Lab. Congrats to everyone at Rocket Lab and Ar..."
"Rocket Lab today is worth 67 billion. It's a busy time in the market for getting mass from Earth to space."
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"you are helping Blue Origin and Rocket Lab continue to uh chop down the wood that they need to do to get to space regularly"
More from TBPN →"You've got Rocket Lab now it's like a $65 billion company. Yeah. definitely have enough resources to go tackle neutron and they've got shareholder expectations for them to get that medium lift rocket up."
More from Delian Asparouhov →"When you look at a Rocket Lab in space on our frontier tech side or the nuclear conversation we just had or you look at Anthropic and the foundation models."
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