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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 Launch Complex 1 on Māhia Peninsula Location Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand Coordinates 39°15′39″S 177°51′57″E / 39.26085°S 177.86586°E / -39.26085; 177.86586 (Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1) Time zone UTC+12 (NZST) • Summer (DST) UTC+13 (NZDT [a]) Operator Rocket Lab Total launches 53 Launch pad(s) 2 LC-1A launch history Status Active ...
Used for the first launch by Rocket Lab of their Atea 1 suborbital rocket. New Zealand: Mahia Peninsula: 2017– 42 [89] 13,000 kg [90] Lunar Launch site built and operated by Rocket Lab. First commercial spaceport in the southern hemisphere.
Māhia Peninsula (Māori: Te Māhia) [2] [3] is located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, in the Hawke's Bay region, between the towns of Wairoa and Gisborne.. It includes Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1, located near Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of the Māhia Peninsula, for launching its Electron rockets.
New Zealand’s Rocket Lab has been preparing for its sixth mission of the year. The prospective launch was slated to take off from Rocket Lab’s Complex 1 site on the Mahia Peninsula.
As Rocket Lab argues, other companies' proposals will probably cost between $5.8 billion and $7.7 billion, and won't be ready to go until at least 2035, maybe as long as 2039.
Rocket Lab has sent its first payloads for NASA into orbit from its New Zealand launch pad, atop a low-cost Electron rocket powered by 3-D-printed engines. Liftoff from Launch Complex 1 on New ...
[74] [75] [72] Rocket Lab's launch business booked revenues of $13.5 million in 2018, $48 million in 2019 and an estimated $33 million in 2020. [72] Rocket Lab spent somewhere between $250 million to $300 million of the cash gained from going public to develop Neutron. [76] Rocket Lab aimed to launch Neutron by 2025. [77]
Over the last 12 months, Rocket Lab generated $327 million in revenue. This is up over 500% in just three years. But what will drive the next leg of growth through 2030?