Electron launch
A Rocket Lab Electron lifts off from the company's New Zealand launch site Dec. 6 on the tenth flight of the small launch vehicle.

Each year for the last several years, industry officials warned that this would be the year the small launch vehicle bubble bursts. But that bubble has not only failed to burst, it’s gotten larger.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...