Rocket Lab – lift off for the Nasdaq

Rocket Lab – lift off for the Nasdaq
Peter Beck is Rocket Lab's founder, chairman, CEO, president and effectively its chief engineer. (Image: Getty.)
Brian Gaynor
At 3.00am NZ time this morning – Saturday August 21 – Vector Acquisition Corporation shareholders were meeting in San Francisco to approve the acquisition of Peter Beck’s Rocket Lab.If the acquisition proposal has been approved, as expected, Rocket Lab will list on the Nasdaq next week.  This will be another remarkable step in the Rocket Lab story as the Nasdaq listed company will have an initial sharemarket value of around NZ$6.6 billion (US$4.6b) with Rocket Lab representing about NZ$5.4b of this. This will make Ro...

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