This is John Batchett, a conversation with my good colleague Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black about a success that is not SpaceX.

Rocket Lab, many, many launches.

And now, because it's publicly listed, being rewarded by Wall Street, a boost in its share price.

Lots of contracts coming in.

Rocket Lab.

A name to remember.

It doesn't have the big heavy lift that SpaceX is going for because it's boosting

into low Earth orbit.

It's a workhorse.

Bob Zimmerman, Rocket Lab.

More of this tonight.

No, there was a yes and no.

There was a major court decision early this week in which a two-judge panel ruled that the White House

Council on Environmental Quality has no statutory authority to impose any kind of environmental

regulations within the government.

And that it maybe invalidates a great deal of the environmental regulations across the board.

It could be a very major decision.

It's a very confused situation, but what strikes me that makes this important to have

to do with space is that this is not the first time in the last year or so, two years,

that judges across the board from the Supreme Court on down are not just simply looking

at the fringe, language, petty, complex issues behind every court case, but they're actually

looking at the statutory authority of environmental or any kind of government agencies,

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