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    Rocket Lab CEO and Chief Technical Officer Peter Beck stands next to an Electron rocket. The Electron rocket is 17 metres long and 1.2 metres in diameter. 

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      Rocket Lab

      When we first met Peter Beck in 2010, his company Rocket Lab (formed in 2006) had not long achieved New Zealand’s first launch of a rocket into space. The suborbital sounding rocket, Ātea-1, blasted into space ...rocket,

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      Kiwis in space

      This Connected article explores the science and technology behind the amazing achievements of Rocket Lab. From New Zealand’s first launch of a rocket into space in 2009 to January 2018 when New ...

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      Peter Beck

      Position: CEO and technical director, Rocket Lab Field: Rocket engineering Peter Beck is CEO and technical director of Rocket Lab, a New Zealand rocket technology company. He founded Rocket Lab in 2006 with the ...

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      Investigating rockets – introduction

      Rocket science includes ideas of forces and motion, how rockets work and some of the challenges for those wanting to make rockets go faster and higher. In the last 60 years, rocket science and ...

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