Rocket Lab - Electron

Counting suborbital HASTE launches.

Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering reliable launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, satellite components, flight software, and more.

• Less than $100m on development and a total of $180m to date including building 3 launch pads, 4 acres of production facilities, 2 mission controls, 14 flights and accounting for my mission to Venus.
• Electron started development around 2013 as per "When The Heavens Went on Sale" by Ashlee Vance.
• Peter Beck "It is true that you have to add a lot of extra hardware to recover a complete stage but as long as you get it back…. it’s kind of free every time thereafter." 2020-04-19.
• ROCKET LAB CEO WANTS TO BUILD A SATELLITE CONSTELLATION — BUT DON’T CALL IT STARLINK, 2021-03-09.
• Rocket Lab to Launch Three Dedicated Electron Missions for Earth Imaging Company Synspective.
• Rocket Lab expands Colorado facilities, prepares for busy launch year.
• Reusable Electron: Analysis of progress toward the world’s first reusable commercial small rocket. SmallSat 2022.
• Rocket Lab reconsidering mid-air recovery of Electron boosters, SpaceNews, 2023-03-01.
• Rocket Lab Announces Closing of Upsized Offering of $355 Million Convertible Senior Notes, 2024-02-07.
• Trinity Capital Inc. Provides $120 Million Equipment Financing to Rocket Lab, 2024-02-21.
• Rocket Lab pushes back Neutron debut to 2025, SpaceNews, 2024-05-07.
• "Rocket Lab says customer readiness is the reason it will far short of projections.", SpaceNews, 2024-08-11.