A reusable suborbital rocket company based in New Zealand. Call it Kiwispace.
[Monday morning update]
Clark Lindsey has more. Apparently I misinterpreted the project in my quick read. Payloads are recovered, but the vehicles don’t seem to be reused. I also have to say that someone who legally changes his last name for this kind of thing is a lot more fanatical about it than I am.
Cool, the country where they filmed Lord of the Rings.
Maybe they could make the rocket look like Orthanc.
Just to be clear 🙂 Not only *filmed*, but all the writing, special effects, editing etc too. And a number of others, most recently “District 9” (which was filmed in South Africa), and “Avatar” very shortly.
I think it’s a good sign that they are focused on the labwork, and aren’t even making a pretense of sub-orbital tourism. Five to eight years ago you needed the sensationalism of sending tourists up to attract investors’ attention, but apparently they think they can now attract investors on “boring” lab work and experiments. That’s good. Boring and income generating is what this market needs to allow profit-driven iterative innovation in reliability and cost-lowering.
http://insidetheasylum.blogsome.com/2009/11/15/the-new-zealand-space-program/
The link to the Asylum’s story doesn’t work. I’m not sure why. Here it is again.
Thanks for the link!
I’m skipping Avatar. It’s too politically correct for me.