Design and manufacturing for the rocket part of their business is mainly split between Auckland and Los Angeles. Various sources say they have between 500 and 700 employees in NZ.
New Zealand has been excluded from maps at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in IKEA stores, on the map of the board games Pandemic and Risk, on the map of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in which Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key participated, at a world map seal at the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland ... on the Pyongyang International Airport in North Korea, and on the logo of the Flat Earth Society.
It was also excluded from maps promoting the 2015 Rugby World Cup even though New Zealand was the world champion at the time. In 2016, a tourist from New Zealand was detained at the Almaty International Airport by Kazakh immigration officers who believed hers was not an autonomous country, but a part of Australia; the world map available on the walls of the immigration office did not include New Zealand, so the tourist could not use it to convince the officers.
> Only the third country to achieve this.
What do you mean by this?
Probably meant the third country with a private sector capability to launch rockets, US and China being the other two.
There's New Zealand as well with RocketLab
as opposed to New Zealand?
Rocket Lab is a US company, they would not have been able to build what they did without full ITAR and MTCR compliance.
Maybe you need to let them know.
They were founded in NZ by a NZer, they launch from NZ, their employees are NZers. Calling them a US company is equivalent to saying Google is Irish.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427351
Design and manufacturing is in the los angeles region aerospace industry cluster.
It's been a US company for the last 13 years.
https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/rocket-lab-makes-its-defen...
Design and manufacturing for the rocket part of their business is mainly split between Auckland and Los Angeles. Various sources say they have between 500 and 700 employees in NZ.
Earlier this year they acquired a new machining business in Auckland and are expanding capacity at their NZ launch site: https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/rocket-lab-establishes-new...
RL incorporated in the USA to gain launch licenses.
They've been an American company for over a decade at this point.
> New Zealand
The invisible kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_of_New_Zealand_from_m...