Rocket Lab's Sir Peter Beck not giving up on Mars despite Trump ‘killing' Nasa mission
'If anything goes to Mars … Chances are it will have a Rocket Lab logo on it.'
Rocket Lab announced a slight slip in quarterly earnings this month, as it continued to make progress on its medium-lift Neutron rocket, set to launch for the first time later this year.
The company that designed, built and launched rockets and spacecraft from launch sites in New Zealand and the United States was experiencing increased demand from the US military, including Neutron becoming eligible for the US$5.6 billion ($9.5b) National Space Security Launch (NSSL) programme.
'Our national security projects and our national security division continue to grow and grow and grow,' Beck said.
'Also, everybody understands we live in a much more unstable world right now, and national security conversations are dinner-time conversations.'
Watch Sir Peter Beck discuss its defence applications, including hypersonic rockets, and see a part of the Neutron rocket up close in today's episode of Markets with Madison above.
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Madison Malone (nee Reidy) is host and executive producer of the NZ Herald 's investment show Markets with Madison. She joined the Herald in 2022 after working in investment, and has covered business and economics for television and radio broadcasters.
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