Comments on: Rocket Lab raises $75 million https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-raises-75-million/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-raises-75-million/#comment-973922 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:07:04 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=44790#comment-973922 LocalFluff,
I wouldn’t worry about the “Cessna” market. Even Cessna is doing well.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-raises-75-million/#comment-973898 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:42:40 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=44790#comment-973898 The big launchers will get the job of gang deployments for new smallsat constellations. The small onesy-twosy launchers will find plenty of work in replacing infant mortality and longer-term in-service losses within these constellations.

]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-raises-75-million/#comment-973782 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 07:25:14 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=44790#comment-973782 $75M is enough to launch no less than two Electron on a Falcon 9. Budget, mass, size (if Electron’s two stages are separated) all fit inside its fairing. Including their 150 kg payloads.

I wish them all luck, and they obviously has some. We’ll see if sat miniaturization will help this dedicated smallsat launch business. I’m afraid that, when the huge reusable launchers get online next decade, it will see a market as large as that for intercontinental flights in a Cessna.

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