1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:06,039 Speaker 1: Five or three, two one. 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 2: But this morning rocket Lab successfully launched its fiftieth mission 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: using their Electron rocket. It makes rocket Lab the fastest 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: get this, the fastest commercial space operator to reach fifty launches, 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 2: faster than even Elon Musk SpaceX. Morgan Connaisant is the 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 2: vice president of Marketing and Communications at rocket Lab and 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: joins me. Now, Hay Morgan, Hello, it's fifty. A big 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: deal in the space industry. Is that like a milestone, 9 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: you guys celebrate. 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: It's bigger than you might realize. Getting to one launch 11 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: by a monumental in the space industry, Getting to two 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: or three is a big deal. A lot of rockets 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: don't even get past number ten. So to get to 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: fifty and we're talking, you know, globally here is a 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: massive deal. And to get to fifty faster than everyone else, 16 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 1: it really puts us, you know, up there in rare 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: if idea with the best space companies in the world. 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 2: Who are the best ustin. 19 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: SpaceX it and how many. 20 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: Have Elon Musk done fifty as well? 21 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: Definitely more than Testy, but they're into a couple of 22 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: hundreds now. But the difference is is how fast we've 23 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: got there. So what we've done is is, you know, 24 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: proven we're able to create a completely new rocket for 25 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: a scratch scratch scale, it really quickly, and obviously that 26 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: growth trajectory is now you know, shooting forces the moon 27 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: scuz to punt. And you know, elix Tum's not our 28 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: only rocket. We're building Neutron, which is a much larger, 29 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: larger rocket designed to compete directly with SpaceX. So that 30 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: puts us in a really good spot to you know, 31 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: be be a really serious contender and large launch as 32 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: well a small. 33 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 2: So how how quickly did you guys do it? 34 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: Seven years and twenty seven days off by. 35 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: A day or two, okay, and how how quickly did 36 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: Elon Musk do it? 37 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: A couple of years longer than that? 38 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 2: Really, so it's actually quite significant, isn't it. 39 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: That's it really is. And I think, you know, typical 40 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: Kiwis we tend to think, you know, we punch above 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: our weights, put ourselves on the back a little bit 42 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: and just carry on and get the job done. You know, 43 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: we don't often stop to pause realized just how significant 44 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: you know, New Zealander's achievements are on the global scale. 45 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: And Rocke leads no different to that, and you know, 46 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to turn our own horn, but you know, 47 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: this really is a big deal. And you know I 48 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: had to text my mum this morning and say, by 49 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: the way, something massive happened. She's super good job, love, 50 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: I'm busy. 51 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 2: Classic. That's also a good thing, though, isn't it Because 52 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: all of our mums are like that in New Zealand, 53 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 2: which means that we just keep grounded because we're like, 54 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 2: it's a big deal for us, but pretty much no one, 55 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 2: I'll say. 56 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: And look, you know, it's it's kind of a beautiful thing. Really. 57 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: There was time when a launch stopped the whole company. 58 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: It was massive news and it was all we could 59 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: think about for months. And now the team popped into 60 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: mission control. We all watched it lift off, you know, 61 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: an hour later we were back at work doing the 62 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: next thing, and it's it's kind of just business as usual. 63 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 2: Morgan, who gets to name the rocket? 64 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: Well, it's a team effort. So sometimes our customers put 65 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: forward great names. So this mission was called no Time 66 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: to Loose and the customer was a French set light 67 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,239 Speaker 1: company and they're from to Loose, so that was great 68 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: name from them. But otherwise we just we put it 69 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: out to the team and best name wins. 70 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, it is it an excellent name. What's it doing 71 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: up there? By the way. 72 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: So these are Internet of Things satellites, which basically satellites 73 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: that provide low bandwidth Internet from space down to sensors 74 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: on the ground. An example of that might be a 75 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: farmer having a Internet connected sensor in a water trough, 76 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: you know, far back in the outback. You normally have 77 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: to drive three hours to check whether or not the 78 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: cattle have water, but instead he can just log into 79 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: his phone that sensor in the water troughs senter ping 80 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: up to a satellite, said nut and full of water. 81 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: You don't need to drive three hours today. And that's 82 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: just one of thousands of examples of how you can 83 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: use those IoT satellites. 84 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 2: What do you reckon is the future for space industry 85 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 2: for New Zealand? How big does it get? 86 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: Well, it's it's a multi trillion dollar industry really in 87 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: the next next decade or two. I think the real 88 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,839 Speaker 1: benefit here and opportunity in the space sector is there's 89 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: no actually so much from Launch, believe it or not. 90 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: Despite it being in our name, Launch is really just 91 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: the keys to space. You really need three things to 92 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: do anything useful in space. You need the ride, which 93 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: is the rockets we've got. You need the satellites, which 94 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: is the hardware and the infrastructure, you know, the stuff 95 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: in orbit that makes it go. But the real important 96 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: but here is the data that you're actually getting down right. 97 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: Everything else is just a tool and a ride. So 98 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: that data might be Internet services, it could be whether 99 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: it might be different communications direct to cell phone Internet, 100 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: it might be disaster relief, it could be any number 101 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: of things. And that's really the real benefit, both from 102 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: a commercial standpoint and also the opportunity to make life 103 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: better for us all down here on Earth. 104 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, brilliant stuff. Hey, well done, and thank you so 105 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 2: much for your time. Morgan Morgan connors and vice president 106 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 2: of marketing and Communications Rock and Lab. For more from Hither, Dupless, 107 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 2: Yel and Drive, listen live to news talks. It'd be 108 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 2: from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.