After a decade of development NZ's Rocket Lab is ready to launch into orbit.

Rocket scientist Lachlan Matchett has been named Young Engineer of the Year.

Rocket Lab is now a $1.4 billion company after attracting more US backing.

The Rocket Lab's first stage booster rocket has passed a trial putting the company closer to the test launch of its Electron vehicle

COMMENT: Associate Professor Johan Potgieter reckons New Zealand's future as a space nation looks bright.

Best of Business: The most powerful machine to fly from this country will be headed for orbit in a matter of months.

Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck has been crowned EY New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year and will head to Monaco to battle for the world title.

A report has investigated the tourism potential of Rocket Lab launching rockets to space from the Hawke's Bay.

Rocket Lab has officially opened its launch site on the East Coast - the world's first private orbital launch complex.

Rocket Lab's space programme is a step closer to liftoff with the installation of a launch platform.

Rocket Lab's mission to send a rocket to the moon is a step closer to reality.

Government is looking to regulate how waste from rocket launches will be disposed of upon returning to Earth.

Education futurist Frances Valintine fears New Zealand risks being left behind in the global digital revolution.

NZ company Rocket Lab is a step closer to lift off, today saying it had done a deal for three satellite launches .

Sheep, hills, remoteness and rockets. New Zealand is about to blast off from distant Mahia and into the world's $350 billion space economy.

NZ and the US sign a deal setting rules around rocket technology and providing a register on what's been blasted into space from our part of the world.

Auckland company Rocket Lab has signed another customer to launch small satellites into space later this year.