Proliferated LEO, Classified Work, and Contracting

“What we are really focused on here is building an end-to-end space company,” says Sir Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab. “You can just come to one company that has all of their equipment, at scale and, and just say, look, I need this capability on orbit and we just pull all the things we need to pull off the shelf, put it together, put a spacecraft together and then go and launch it, and can even operate it for customers.” Beck talks with Bloomberg Intelligence’s Wayne Sanders about Rocket Lab’s vertical-integration structure and soon-to-be-featured medium-launch vehicle, Neutron. The latter comes at a critical time as space-launch cadence increases, demand for on-orbit ca