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Rocket Lab

NASDAQ: RKLB

A launch company that printed its engines from the start. Rutherford, the first 3D printed electric turbopump-fed engine, flies nine to a rocket on Electron, and the larger Archimedes engine for Neutron is mostly printed too.

Status
Listed
Listing
NASDAQ: RKLB
Headquarters
Long Beach, California, United States
Founded
2006
Ownership
Listed on Nasdaq (RKLB)
Technologies
L-PBF, Rutherford engine, Archimedes engine

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Timeline

6 entries, oldest first
  1. 2013
    2013

    Begins developing the Rutherford engine, the first 3D printed, electric turbopump-fed rocket engine, and fires it for the first time the same year

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  2. 2018
    Jan 2018

    A 3D printed Rutherford engine launches Electron into orbit

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  3. 2019
    Jul 2019

    Completes its 100th Rutherford engine, 70 of them already flown, and expands its Huntington Beach printing facilities

    Each Electron first stage needs nine engines; the expansion targeted 200 more within 12 months.

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  4. 2024
    Jun 2024

    Completes the first Archimedes engine for Neutron and begins a test campaign at NASA Stennis

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  5. Aug 2024

    Says about 90 percent of the Archimedes engine mass is 3D printed material, with the engines now in production

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  6. 2026
    May 2026

    Completes its 1,000th Rutherford engine at Long Beach, with a target of about 200 a year, up from roughly one a month in 2017

    Printers named are from EOS, Nikon SLM Solutions and Renishaw.

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