Rocket Lab Ltd., a U.S.-New Zealand company developing a small launch vehicle, announced July 1 it will carry out initial launches of that vehicle from a new site on the east coast of New Zealand.

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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...