Przykład Nowozelandczyka świadczy o tym, że jak potrafi się przekonać do swoich pomysłow to granice nie są wielką przeszkodą.
Rakiety nośne Elektron będą miały sporo pracy by obsłużyć rynek , jak wynika ze słów szefa Rocket Lab.
Ciekawe czy uda się uniknąć większych zastojów. Nowa rakieta to i może będą się zdarzać nipowodzenia.
Japonia i Europa też pracują nad małymi rakietami, a więc rynek na małe ładunki wydaje się rozwojowy.
http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=15.msg114367#msg114367http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=2711.msg101160#msg101160ILR-33 „Bursztyn” w dalszych etapach rozwojowych mógłby pewnie orbitalnie się sprawdzić. Przeszkody mogą być pozatechnologiczne.
Peter BeckPublished 30 November 2011, Updated 22 August 2017
Rocket Lab team in 2008
Peter Beck, Mark Rocket and other team members in the very early days of Rocket Lab - prior to the 2009 launch to space of their Ātea-1 rocket.(...) In 2013, Rocket Lab achieved backing from a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. At this time they also made the move to the United States, basing their corporate headquarters in Los Angeles and registering the company there. The research and development arm of Rocket Lab remains predominantly within New Zealand, at their facility near Auckland Airport. Rocket Lab have also built a rocket launch facility at Mahia Peninsula on the East Coast of New Zealand. In 2017 he watched on as Rocket Lab launched their Electron rocket into space from this, the world's first private orbital launch site in New Zealand. (...)
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/398-peter-beckThe Rocket Man: Who is Peter Beck?25 May, 2017 By: Grant Bradley Aviation, tourism and energy writer for the NZ Herald
(...) In 2001 he got a job in Auckland at Industrial Research (now Callaghan Innovation) which had its base at Balfour St in Parnell and continued working on his passion - rockets.
He set up Rocket Lab in 2006 and it was at IRL that he met Sir Stephen Tindall, who through K1W1 Ltd and other vehicles, has invested over $150m into a large number of startup and early-stage businesses.
Tindall said he was impressed by Beck, the consummate rocket scientist.
"He'd really done his apprenticeship and had spent a lot of time on this and become a world expert. He has a proven record in the industry and he's embraced the latest technology and gone beyond that with his own R&D and come up with something that is really the 787 of space." (...)
While it can draw on up to $25m of government funding over five years, Rocket Lab's main backers include US companies Kholsa Ventures, Beesemer Venture Partners, Data Collective, Promus Ventures, Lockheed Martin and Stephen Tindall's K1W1. (...)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11862427THE LITTLE ROCKET THAT COULD SENDS REAL SATELLITES TO SPACE01.20.18mAUTHOR: SARAH SCOLESSARAH SCOLES SCIENCE
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket is smaller than most, built to carry tiny CubeSats.https://www.wired.com/story/rocket-lab-still-testing/https://www.rocketlabusa.com/assets/Uploads/Payload-User-Guide.pdf