By Deborah Williams, Published by World Beyond War, 8 October 2025 Here is breaking news from my city Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. The aerospace industry here started with a simple New Zealand-owned rocket site industry in the North Island named RocketLab operating on Māori land on the Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab's Neutron launch vehicle will fly from Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island. (Rocket Lab) By Courtney Albon, Published by Defense News, 29 August 2025 WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia— As Rocket Lab prepares to roll out its new Neutron rocket as a fresh competitor for military and commercial missions,
Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 28 August 2025 WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab’s newly acquired subsidiary Geost has secured an expansion of a U.S. Space Force contract to produce two optical payloads for missions in geostationary orbit. The
Rocket Lab's launch site on Mahia Peninsula. By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 23 August 2025 "Live, Laugh, Launch" was the 70th mission of Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle to date. Rocket Lab launched five satellites for a confidential customer this evening (Aug. 23) on the 70th overall liftoff of its
Protest outside Auckland’s Rocket Lab HQ on 4 July By Murray Horton, From: Anti-Bases Campaign, New Zealand, 4 July 2025 The day after PSNA announced our referral of four cabinet ministers and two business leaders to the International Criminal Court wee supported the “End Rocket Lab Genocide Complicity” protest outside
Protesters outside the 2022 Rocket Lab conference at Te Pae Convention Centre in Christchurch.Peter Meecham / The Press By Warren Thomson. Published by The Press, 9 June 2025 Warren Thomson is an anti-nuclear activist who has been writing and speaking on peace issues for fifty years, and is involved with
(Image credit: U.S. Space Force) By Audry Decker, Published by Defense One, 18 April 2025 As Trump envisions “our manifest destiny into the stars,” the Space Force is set to play a key role in America’s space ambitions. When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed
Firefly’s Alpha rocket will launch the mysterious Victus Sol mission for the Space Force. (Firefly Aerospace / Trevor Mahlmann) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 16 April 2025 While the current focus on the TacRS program is space domain awareness, Col. Bryon McClain, SSC's head of Space Domain Awareness
