S8 Ep215: PREVIEW ROCKET LAB OUTPERFORMS RUSSIA IN LAUNCH NUMBERS Colleague Bob Zimmerman. Bob Zimmerman highlights Rocket Lab's success, noting the private company is outperforming Russia in launch numbers. He describes a recent mission deploying "pizza pie" shape
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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| 0:30.4 | This is John Batchel, speaking with my colleague Bob Zimmerman about Rocket Lab, a private |
| 0:35.4 | enterprise that Bob praises for its most recent launch. |
| 0:40.0 | At the same time, the irony. |
| 0:42.5 | Rocket Lab is now outperformed in 2025. |
| 0:45.9 | Roscosmos, outperformed Russia, one commercial company in America. |
| 0:51.2 | Not the biggest, not the most outstanding when it comes to press releases, |
| 0:56.2 | getting the job done and developing a job for work for Space Force that is unique. |
| 1:02.9 | Bob explains here about what kind of satellites is offering, pizza pie satellites, and why. |
| 1:08.9 | But in any event, more than Russia in 2025. |
| 1:14.2 | More of this tonight, commercial space. |
| 1:18.1 | All right, so Rockett did a successful launch again this week. |
| 1:22.0 | It's 17th of the year orbital launch, and that's a record for it. |
| 1:26.0 | It's actually done 20 launches, some suborbital launches for the military's hypersonic test program. |
| 1:32.4 | This particular launch put up four new satellites for the Space Force. |
| 1:36.9 | These are technology test satellites. |
| 1:38.8 | They're called disk sats. |
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