When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches an Earth observation radar satellite for Japanese company Synspective on August 2, 2024. | Credit: Rocket Lab This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s … Read more
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On Aug. 18, 2024, Rocket Lab delivered the two spacecraft for NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, in preparation for launch this fall. | Credit: NASA/Norman Phelps Two small satellites bound for … Read more
Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab (RKLB), has been an outsider since the company was founded in 2006. Beck is originally from New Zealand and has no university education. He has long been seen as an anti-Elon Musk. He often reminds his employees: “We have no money, so we have to think.” Now, with his … Read more
Who is the most successful entrepreneur in the commercial space industry? Most people would say Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, a company valued at more than $200 billion in late June, according to Forbes. But New Zealander Peter Beck is also part of the conversation. Rocket Lab, the company he founded and runs, celebrated its … Read more
COLORADO SPRINGS — Extremely busy with an eye to the future. That’s a short and sweet assessment from Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck. In the pantheon of private space groups, Rocket Lab is a roaring success, and Beck wants to keep it that way. Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab‘s quest to pioneer affordable … Read more
Rocket Lab (RKLB) will attempt to launch its first ‘Neutron’ rocket by the end of 2024. NASA, along with fourteen other companies, recently tapped Rocket Lab to help the space agency with payload integration services on suborbital rockets and high-altitude balloons. and orbital spacecraft and satellites. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck joins Yahoo Finance to … Read more