postingawayonhn

Real estate development is a pretty competitive business with few barriers to entry. Nobody controls enough of the market to make it worth trying to restrict other developers.

In most cities it's developers who are pushing councils/government to rezone land so they can secure additional development sites.

Europe looks incredibly weak at present and the US incredibly corrupt.

Yeah, often once a week only team up until COVID.

Based on the war in Ukraine S-400s aren't really able to intercept much at all.

I think New Zealand is ahead. RocketLab was the second company in the world after SpaceX to get a privately developed launch vehicle to orbit, back in 2017. They've now had 86 successful launches from their NZ launch site.

Yes, they've had a space agency, but the only launchers are expensive legacy vehicles.

This launch is a move towards lower cost and more frequent launches, that in the US are provided by SpaceX.

I think that's about the ballpark of what is required for a rocket of this size. SpaceX and RocketLab raised similar amounts prior to their first successful launches.

Starlink speed and bandwidth is way ahead of any of the existing satellite internet providers.

They still have significant NZ design, manufacturing, and launch operations.

For regulatory and capital raising reasons the parent company has been US based for quite a few years now. They've also been on a multi-year acquisitions spree and picked up quite a large US workforce through that.

Yes, they can after 4 years, although that was only a recent change.

The bigger factor is that Australia and NZ have free movement between the countries for those who are a citizen of either.

Yeah, I think it will be important to continue improving drone technology and have a plan to scale manufacturing in the event of a major conflict, but the lack of conventional air superiority is what has really brought this war to a stalemate.

But the assumptions should always be that one day someone like that could take power and gain access to that data.

'Cost a LOT' is relative though.

Expensive compared to a 777 flight? Sure. Expensive compared to every other moon capable rocket? No.