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Rocket Lab's Competitiveness in the Space Industry

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Rocket Lab has carved a niche of launching reusable small rockets because they cost less to launch and are faster to schedule for takeoff. The Electron has a sticker price of $7.5 million compared to SpaceX's Falcon 9, which will cost you $60 million. Rocket Lab is working on neutron, which is a larger rocket capable of carrying up to 13,000 kilogram payload into the lower Earth orbit. It should also be capable of human space flight,. but the primary goal of this one is to compete with SpaceX on launching very heavy satellites and mega-constellations of satellites.

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