Rocket Lab | This is Neutron [8:46]

YouTube ^ | September 3, 2025 | Rocket Lab

[SunkenCiv]

Meet Neutron, Rocket Lab's new reusable medium-lift rocket that will deliver a cost-effective, reliable, and responsive launch service for missions to the International Space Station and low Earth orbit, as well as to explore beyond Earth and on to the Moon and Mars. 

Rocket Lab | This is Neutron | 8:46 
Rocket Lab | 195K subscribers | 162,160 views | September 3, 2025

 

wiki-wacky: [snip] Neutron is a partially reusable medium-lift two-stage launch vehicle under development by Rocket Lab... designed to be capable of delivering a payload of 13,000 kg (28,700 lb) to low Earth orbit in a partially reusable configuration... expected to be operational sometime in 2025. It uses LOX and liquid methane propellant on both stages of the vehicle.[/snip]

[SunkenCiv]

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Northrup Grumman Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 6:11 p.m. EDT (2211 UTC) on Sunday, Sept. 14. The first-stage booster for this mission, B1094, making its fourth flight will return to Cape Canaveral for a landing about eight minutes after leaving the launch pad. The mission, designated NG-23, will take a north-easterly trajectory on departure from Florida's Space Coast. (with commentary from Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith)

Watch Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch space station cargo mission | 2:00:16
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('Civ note: I set the time index to the 10-9-8... NICE booster landing on land)

[snip] 4th flight of F9 #1094, 533rd F9 launch, 116th in 2025, 468 F9 reflight [/snip]

[SunkenCiv]

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[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-jdhorGtQI

[SaveFerris]

So it IS Rocket 🚀 Surgery 👨‍⚕️....

Or Brain 🧠 Science 🧪....

[montag813]

RocketLab stock was hovering around $4 for years. $7 less than a year ago. Now $55, all-time high.

[PGalt]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh, I’m not sure I knew they were publicly traded. Rocket Mortgage, yeah...

Thanks all, and my pleasure!

[marktwain]

It will be hard to catch up to SpaceX.

Competition is good.

[SunkenCiv]

They won’t catch SpaceX, per se, but my guess is, they’ll be (probably already are) the strong number two, worldwide. I am curious about the phrase “partially reusable”. 😎

[Brilliant]

But when does the neutron launch? By end of year they say but that’s coming pretty quickly.