Rocket Lab began as a small launch company. Today, our rockets, spacecraft, and components power hundreds of missions for science and exploration, national security, and commercial constellations. Here's a tiny glimpse of how far we've evolved since Electron's first launch less than 10 years ago. Rockets unlock space. Satellites do the work. We build and operate both.

Rocket Lab CEO @Peter_J_Beck reveals the “ridiculous” 24-hour constraint he gave the Neutron team, and how it forced them to engineer servicing out of the rocket: "At the time, it seemed a ridiculous constraint, but it drove all the right engineering thinking. Time will tell if we ever actually get there, but certainly the vehicle is designed to do that." "It's not 24 hours of inspections. It's literally 24 hours, load payload, and go again. Just like you would with a normal aircraft." "If you had 24 days, then you have plenty of time for inspections and replacement and servicing of components. If you have 24 hours, it engineers out all of these serviceable items." "We can't go and service the rocket engine between flights. We just have to make it go and go and go. You don't pull a turbine out the front of an airplane engine every time you land." @RocketLab

Rocket Lab CEO @Peter_J_Beck does the back-of-the-napkin math on Iridium’s ~$3B constellation and says Rocket Lab could have built it for around $350M: "Take Iridium for example. Their constellation, don't quote me on this, is around about $3 billion for them to develop and deploy. We did a back of the napkin calculation and we reckon we could have done that for around about 350 million." "The timeframe to develop the satellite and put it on orbit, typically that would take five years plus. Roll some stuff off our production line, 12 months or 24 months." "When the cost is an order of magnitude less, you can take some risk, because nobody's gonna come up with a business plan, spend $3 billion and wonder if it's gonna work." "You can put experimental business plans in orbit that if it doesn't work out, you've lost a relatively small amount of money. Your ability to innovate drastically increases." @RocketLab

Rocket Lab CEO @Peter_J_Beck says reusable rockets aren’t new, the Space Shuttle proved that in the ’70s, but the economics never worked until recently: "I think people forget the space shuttle. The space shuttle was a reusable launch vehicle, designed back in the '70s. It's just unfortunate that the reusability didn't deliver on its cost targets. It was more expensive to almost reuse it." "What's unique now is it has been demonstrated, and the economics have been demonstrated." "You have a giant rocket full of fuel, and it puts all of that energy to go up. Newton's third law, you're gonna have the exact same energy coming back down, so you have to dissipate all of that energy. It's a re-entry and control problem." @RocketLab

Rocket Lab CEO @Peter_J_Beck breaks the entire space industry into 3 simple layers, from rockets to the services we use every day: "I probably shouldn't have called it Rocket Lab. I should have called it Space Lab. The rocket always steals the show because it's this big roaring stick in the sky." "Rockets, that's about a $10 or $20 billion industry. Spacecraft, the tools in space to provide services, 20 to $30 billion. And then the reason why you do all of those things are applications in space." "Space is kinda weird that it's hidden infrastructure. You don't drive past it every day, so you don't see it. But everybody interfaces with space every single day, whether you realize it or not." "We build rockets, we build satellites, and with our acquisition of Iridium, we're also a services company from space." @RocketLab

Rocket Lab CEO @Peter_J_Beck explains what Iridium’s L-band can do that Starlink broadband can’t, including provide a GPS-like signal 1,000X louder when GPS is jammed: "Think about L-band spectrum as like a really loud voice. It can shout through the rain and it can shout through buildings. Broadband is a quieter voice, so if it's raining, you start to lose your signal." "That means it becomes really important for defense and safety critical things, where the signal just must get through." "If you look at any of the trouble zones right now, GPS is basically almost useless because it's completely jammed and spoofed. L-band can also be used for providing a GPS position, but it's a thousand times louder." "If you're sitting on the ground and you're trying to jam GPS, it has to be a thousand times more powerful than it currently is, and that's a challenging thing to do." @RocketLab