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The John Batchelor Show

Preview: Bob Zimmerman Profiles Rocket Lab's Success in Booster and Spacecraft Development. More Later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Preview: Bob Zimmerman Profiles Rocket Lab's Success in Booster and Spacecraft Development. More Later.
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This is John Batchel. Colle. Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black Profiles Rocket Lab. This is a publicly traded booster building company open for business.

0:42.9

The Financial Times mentions it prominently within these last hours because it was part of the portfolio of the winner of stock picking for the year.

0:53.0

A young man who had five choices, plus or minus,

0:57.6

a shorter long. Rocket Lab was one of his choices. An end-to-end space company writes Rocket Lab on the

1:04.5

F.T. offering page. The company designs and manufactures small and medium class rockets.

1:14.3

Bob describes here why and how it's doing so well,

1:17.8

especially its fundamental rocket, the neutron rocket.

1:19.9

Here's Bob Zimmerman on Rocket Lab.

1:21.5

More of this tonight.

1:22.9

No, no. They have, right now they have one rocket called the electron rocket,

1:27.0

which is totally disposable.

1:29.3

They were attempting to make the first stage reusable.

1:32.1

They were doing experiments, capturing it.

1:34.3

They actually did reuse an engine at one time.

1:36.8

But they have put that aside because they're building a new rocket, the neutron rocket, which is bigger, reusable.

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