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A Rocket Lab Electron launched a set of cubesats sponsored by the Japanese space agency JAXA April 22 on the company's second dedicated mission for the agency.
"Early technology development can be done at these small mom and pop shops, but when it really comes prime time to make things at scale, people like ourselves who are procurers of that, if they don't vertically integrate, they get very nervous," Rocket Lab CFO Adam Spice told Payload
Rocket Lab has won a contract from Japanese radar satellite company iQPS for three additional Electron launches.
"You look at things like Golden Dome. There were a couple of capability gates there where you had to demonstrate capability by deadlines in order to be eligible to continue to compete," Brian Rogers, Rocket Lab's VP of launch, told Payload. "The constraints around launch can pick winners and losers there if you don't have a way to get to space by a deadline."
Decision clears path for April closing after months of scrutiny over keeping key space technology in domestic hands
Rocket Lab launched the latest in a series of satellites for Japanese radar imaging company Synspective on March 20.
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Rocket Lab launched a spacecraft March 5 for a confidential customer, most likely Earth observation company BlackSky.