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This is CBS Islander World. I'm John Batcher. From the surface of the planet Earth,

we're staying very firmly on the surface of the planet Earth with Bob Zimmerman,

who keeps the website behind the black, because we're looking at commercial space,

this is rocket lab, and the East Coast of the United States,

Wallops Island, and NASA approving a critical step going forward with launches from Wallops Island.

Bob, what is flight termination software? Good evening, too.

Good evening, John. Well, rocket lab, which launches out of New Zealand,

it's an American company, it's a small sat rocket company,

they launch small keepsats and so forth, and they've been operational for about three years.

Rocket lab has been trying to get approval to launch rockets,

it's an electron rocket from Virginia at Wallops Island,

the Mid-Atlantic Space Point, and they were ready to do this a year and a half ago,

they were ready to launch, they wanted to launch, but they have not been able to get approval

of the flight termination software. Now, when they launch a rocket in the past,

there is a range of offices standing by with their finger on the button,

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