Re:Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Ac...
by wolf550e on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:03PM
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It's more of a New Zealand company with enough presence in the US to be legal for ITAR purposes.
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Re:Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Ac...
by adventured on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:42PM
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How do you get to that? Their rockets are designed and manufactured in the US. Their money has largely been from the US. They're incorporated in the US. They're using US technology and engineering.
That's a long ways from the minimal contribution you're implying.
Re:Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Ac...
by wolf550e on Sunday November 11, 2018 @02:03PM
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see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab
The manufacturing is in New Zealand. I don't know about design, but I understood that design is also done in New Zealand. They received money from the US and they cooperated with NASA, and for that they needed to have facilities in the US, but I don't know how much.
They now opened a second launch facility in the US, but that is not a large operation compared to design, manufacturing and testing the rockets.
Articles from the past make it sound like a New Zealand company with a corporate structure that is a legal fiction to be legal in the US.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/29/kiwi_company_rocket...