NZ's blank slate helped aerospace industry take off here – Mark Rocket

NZ's blank slate helped aerospace industry take off here – Mark Rocket
Mark Rocket, the chief executive of Christchurch-based Kea Aerospace. (Image: NZME/Martin Hunter)
Greg Hurrell
The sudden rise of New Zealand's space and advanced aviation industry is partly because it didn’t grow out of an existing military-industrial complex, one of its pioneers says.Mark Rocket, chief executive of Christchurch-based Kea Aerospace and a co-founder of Rocket Lab, told BusinessDesk that NZ was the first country in the world to develop an orbit-capable space industry directly out of the private sector. Since it was founded, a host of companies have sprung up in NZ in the space and advanced aerospace sector, along with rese...

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