Comments on: Rocket Lab gets two-launch contract from Japan’s space agency JAXA https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-gets-two-launch-contract-from-japans-space-agency-jaxa/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:06:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-gets-two-launch-contract-from-japans-space-agency-jaxa/#comment-1623709 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:06:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118024#comment-1623709 The JAXA contract is on top up two other contract .. extensions? additions?

Two other customers added additional launches to their current contracts.

RKLB hit $70, which must have been a trigger point for sells, because is it immediately dropped to $64-$65 -ish.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-gets-two-launch-contract-from-japans-space-agency-jaxa/#comment-1623683 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:29:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118024#comment-1623683 They weren’t the first:
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=35229
A different America then.

Things changed for the worse:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9nn7oc2ORY

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-gets-two-launch-contract-from-japans-space-agency-jaxa/#comment-1623680 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:39:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118024#comment-1623680 Yeah. Honda isn’t a “new start-up,” it’s a new entrant.

]]> By: Boobah https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-gets-two-launch-contract-from-japans-space-agency-jaxa/#comment-1623679 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:32:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118024#comment-1623679 In context, it makes sense, but it’s a little jarring to hear Honda be referred to as a “new startup.”

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-gets-two-launch-contract-from-japans-space-agency-jaxa/#comment-1623675 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:15:37 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118024#comment-1623675 Agreed that Rocket Lab was thinking well outside the box with the Rutherford engine. I suspect the internal trade studies showed that batteries and electric motors scale down better then turbomachinery. Also, that battery technology, in particular, was advancing fast enough to offer the prospect of quick efficiency improvements. But there are limits. Neutron’s engines are powered by turbo machinery.

]]> By: GeorgeC https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-gets-two-launch-contract-from-japans-space-agency-jaxa/#comment-1623674 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:06:08 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118024#comment-1623674 Rocket Lab must have some very interesting engineers, because has anyone else on the history of rocket engines used an electric motor to power the propellent pumps?

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