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.
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...