Rocket Lab CEO @Peter_J_Beck reveals the US government gave them 24 hours to launch and rendezvous with another satellite, and they made orbit in just 16 hours 42 minutes: "We're a prime contractor on a couple of these really large national security missions. It's really exciting to see the government procure these kind of missions in a much more commercial way." "The government didn't procure a rocket, they didn't procure a satellite, they procured an image of another satellite in orbit." "They gave us a call up, and we had 24 hours to integrate our payload, launch it, and rendezvous with the spacecraft in orbit. Within 16 hours and 42 minutes, we were already in orbit." "This is the new world, where commercial companies can truly respond at what you would have thought of as a nation or a defense kind of cadence." @RocketLab