Rocket Lab is looking to get its launch business back on track.

Founder and CEO Peter Beck says the company now expects to resume

launches as soon as the end of November,

just over two months after a complex mission failure involving its electron rocket.

It was a very, very difficult anomaly to try and resolve.

Naturally, you know, the vehicle has so much heritage and so much flight that you know time now that

anything anything that that happened wasn't going to be like super simple

somebody forgot to plug something in or something like that it was going to be

deeply complex which it was and but the team was able to

push through resolve it to get to root cause and put some mitigated you know fixes

in there that that will you know won't see that coming back. On this episode, Beck discusses the action-packed launch manifest for 2024, roughly two missions

per month, the latest on the new more powerful neutron rocket,

the space systems business, which is actually the company's biggest,

and launching hypersonic drones for the Pentagon.

I'm Morgan Brennan, and this is Manifest Space.

So you just came off of earnings earlier in the month.

I think maybe let's start there because it wasn't just about the financial results for the

quarter but it was also the fact that you are opening up your next launch

window for electron which is the end of this month and which marks two and a half

months since your last mission which we know failed.

Yeah, no, it's, it was a very, very difficult anomaly to try and resolve.

Naturally, you know, the vehicle has so much heritage and so much

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