SPACE IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS

“Fundamentally, it’s very difficult. The total mass of the rocket – one percent you actually put into orbit” Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab.

LAUNCHING SPACE TOURISM

On the 26th September this year, the tiny nation of New Zealand entered the space race with the opening of the Rocket Lab Launch Complex. The sci-fi sounding spaceport is the world’s only privately owned launch site and will be the home to space exploration where locally made rockets will carry small satellites into orbit. The site will also be available to overseas space engineering companies to test and evaluate products. To date, only 9 other countries have launched rockets into space with most of these being super powers with the budgets to afford the expensive undertaking. Rocket Lab is just the second private company to launch material into space. read more