Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

Who Holds the Keys to Space? #rocketlab #rockets #space #satellite #elonmusk

10 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, a company representative explains the firm’s strategic vision of owning the “keys to space” by offering a full‑stack, end‑to‑end service that spans spacecraft design, component manufacturing, launch, and on‑orbit operations. The speaker notes that roughly two‑thirds of the company’s revenue is generated from satellite and spacecraft components, while the remaining one‑third comes from launch services, highlighting the business’s unique position as perhaps the only provider that can take a customer’s space concept from idea to operation under one roof. The talk ends with a light‑hearted “Big Bang Burger!” remark, underscoring a playful brand tone.

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If you have the keys to space, you can do almost anything, and of course you have more options available to you. But it becomes very, very powerful when you also can build all the infrastructure in space. So, you know, as a company, that's kind of where we're going. You know, two-thirds of our revenue comes from all of our satellites and spacecraft components and all the rest of it, and one-third from launch. But what it means is, I think, you know, it's fair to say we're about the only company in the world where someone can turn up and say, "Hey, I want to do this thing in space," and we We can design the spacecraft, architect it, build it, use all of our components, launch it, and then operate it. So it really is an end-to-end kind of thing we're trying to create here, which is pretty unique. Big Bang Burger!