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New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab has unveiled a 10 tonne rocket capable of sending satellites into space for less than $6 million, a fractionpatagonia yulex wetsuit review of current costs.
At an unveiling in Auckland this morning, Rocket Lab chief executive Peter Beck said the 18 metre rocket, named Electron, would revolutionise the space game.
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Rocket Lab would provide all the launching facilities to get customers satellites into space. It already had commitments for more than 30 launches, he said.
Beck, who foundpatagonia everlong review games0ed Rocket Lab in 2007, said a team of 25 staff had worked on the project for the past year.
The company was looking to add 30 staff to meet demand forecasts.
We re looking to create a billion dollar space industry down here.
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Rocket Lab built Electron using a $25m government grant and funds from The Warehouse founder Sir Stephen Tindall and principal bpatagonia outlet store eddieacker Silicon Valley venture capital company Khosla Ventures.
A former Nasa director and Florida Space Institute research associate Dr Alan Westopatagonia everlong review games2n, who was at today s unveiling, said Rocket Lab was a global leader in aerospace techpatagonia discount code icrackednology and Electron was a game changer.
It s revolutionary, Weston said. This will address the cost of getting spacecraft into space.
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This is not just cheap, it s responsive which means you can launch it when you want to. In the United States it can take over a year.
Beck said the rocket has 10 engines, named Rutherford, which burned the same amount of fuel an aircraft used to fly from Aucklapatagonia guide jacket 6082nd to Christchurch.
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