Rocketlab HQ is in California, their condition for being allowed to launch from New Zealand is that only US persons deal with the ITAR stuff. They are an American company.

It is now, for business purposes. It was started in New Zealand by a New Zealander with New Zealand investors. It even got an investment from the NZ government. Their first rocket was named after the Maori word for 'Space'. Before acquiring SolAero last year, they had 525 employees in New Zealand and 150 in the rest of the world. January this year was the first time they actually launched from the US. All normal things for American companies clearly...

It's a straight up fact that the holding company for RocketLab, Rocket Lab USA, traded on NASDAQ as KRLB, is a US company.

Stop injecting nationalistic cheerleading into places it's not necessary.

Lol. Not from New Zealand. It's like saying Burger King is Canadian now that it merged with Tim Horton's and the headquarters is in Toronto. I didn't even inject this into the conversation, I was responding to someone saying "over and over again" that it was an American company, like it matters when over 90% of it's launches are still in the country that it was founded in.

> It was founded in New Zealand

Yes I know. But that is literally irrelevant.

> New Zealand headquarters

No its not.

The US is where their head quarters is, its where their engine production is, and lots of other subsystems too, it where much of its sat division is, its where they are developing the Neutron rocket. One if its two launch pads is in the US.

RocketLab is an American company that builds some structures in New Zealand and has a launch pad there.

I don't know why its so fucking hard for people to operate Wikipedia.

I am not saying this to discredit RocketLab, its a simple statement of fact.