--> YouTube-Generated Transcript <-- 0:05 · CHARLES: FOLKS ROCKET LABS 0:06 · RESULTS OUT LAST NIGHT AND LET'S 0:07 · JUST SAY THE CROWD WENT WILD. 0:10 · BEARS ACROSS-THE-BOARD, YOU 0:13 · KNOW, WE SAW ONCE AGAIN, 0:15 · COULDN'T KEEP UP, SOLID GUIDANCE 0:16 · THEY BEAT THE STREET EVERYWHERE, 0:18 · AND OF COURSE THE STOCK OPENED 0:20 · UP THE SESSION MUCH HIGHER I 0:21 · WANT TO BRING IN ROCKET LABS CEO 0:25 · PETER BECK, AND FIRST AND 0:26 · FOREMOST, CONGRATULATIONS. 0:27 · >> THANKS CHARLES. 0:28 · CHARLES: WHAT STANDS OUT MOST TO 0:30 · YOU WITH RESPECT TO THE LAST 0:31 · THREE MONTHS? 0:33 · >> YEAH, LOOK, REALLY JUST 0:36 · THE GROWTH IN THE COMPANY AND 0:37 · ALL OF THE BUSINESS UNITS AND 0:41 · SMALL LAUNCH VEHICLE JUST 0:42 · CONTINUED TO HIT LARGER AND 0:44 · LARGER STRIDES AND GOALS SO JUST 0:46 · REALLY SOLID GROWTH THROUGHOUT 0:47 · THE BUSINESS ACROSS IT. 0:48 · CHARLES: LET'S TALK ABOUT 0:50 · THE BUSINESS AND START WITH 0:51 · ELECTRON AND GO BACK THERE. 0:53 · YOUR BACKLOG IS BUILDING 0:56 · THE SUCCESS IS THERE. 0:58 · WHAT ARE YOU ANTICIPATING 1:00 · FOR NEXT YEAR? 1:00 · >> YEAH, LOOK. 1:02 · ELECTRON AS YOU POINT OUT IS 1:07 · THE VEHICLE RIGHT NOW AND IN 1:08 · ONE QUARTER WE BOOKED 17 1:09 · LAUNCHES ALONE, SO REALLY STRONG 1:11 · GROWTH IN THE BACKLOG AND YEAH, 1:14 · LOOK, THIS YEAR, WE'RE ON TRACK 1:15 · TO HAVE THE BIGGEST LAUNCH YEAR 1:17 · EVER AND NEXT YEAR IS SHAPING UP 1:19 · TO BE EVEN BIGGER, SO SUPER 1:22 · EXCITING. 1:22 · CHARLES: TELL US ABOUT PHOTON. 1:25 · >> YEAH, SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE 1:27 · OF REALLY INTERESTING MISSIONS 1:29 · HAPPENING SO A COUPLE OF 1:31 · SPACECRAFT SITTING ON A BLUE 1:34 · ORIGIN VEHICLE THAT WE BUILT 1:35 · THAT ARE GETTING READY TO LAUNCH 1:37 · IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS TO GO 1:39 · TO MARS AND THE CORE THING ABOUT 1:40 · THAT MISSION IS WHEN YOU TALK 1:42 · ABOUT GOING TO MARS YOU THINK OF 1:44 · BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND DECADES. 1:46 · THIS WAS TENS OF MILLIONS OF 1:47 · DOLLARS IN A FEW YEARS TWO 1:49 · SPACECRAFT WERE BUILT AND ON 1:50 · THEIR WAY TO MARS SHORTLY. 1:52 · CHARLES: ELON LAST NIGHT TALKING 1:53 · ABOUT ROBOTS GOING TO MARS TOO. 1:55 · YOU TALK TO ELON YET? 1:59 · >> I'VE GOT BIGGER JOBS TO 2:03 · FOCUS ON MYSELF. 2:04 · CHARLES: LET'S TALK ABOUT HASTE 2:05 · THEN ANOTHER PROJECT EVERYONE IS 2:07 · EXCITED ABOUT. 2:08 · >> YEAH. 2:10 · SO, HASTE IS A SUBORBITAL 2:13 · VARIANT OF THE ELECTRON VEHICLE 2:15 · AND YOU KNOW, THE U.S. HAS 2:17 · STRUGGLED TO MAKE GREAT 2:18 · ADVANCEMENTS IN HYPERSONICS IN 2:21 · PART DUE TO THE AVAILABILITY OF 2:24 · AFFORDABLE TEST PLATFORMS, SO BY 2:25 · TAKING OUR ELECTRON, WE'RE ABLE 2:27 · TO PUT ALL THESE HYPERSONIC 2:30 · EXPERIMENTS ON THE NOSE AND 2:31 · REALLY ACCELERATE THAT TESTING 2:32 · AND WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF GROWTH 2:34 · IN THAT MARKET AND ITS JUST BEEN 2:37 · TREMENDOUS FOR OUR CUSTOMERS TO 2:38 · DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY. 2:39 · CHARLES: THE HYPERSONIC ISSUE IS 2:41 · SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WORRIED 2:42 · ABOUT HERE PARTICULARLY WITH 2:46 · RUSSIA AND NOW THEY HAVE, 2:48 · UNFORTUNATELY WITH THIS WAR, 2:49 · THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO 2:51 · EXPERIMENT EVEN MORE IN REALTIME 2:52 · SOMETHING WE HAVE TO CATCH UP ON 2:53 · BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT 2:55 · EVERYONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT SO 2:57 · I HAD AN ANALYST YESTERDAY THAT 2:59 · LOVES YOUR STOCK AND SAID MAYBE 3:00 · NEUTRON WILL BE PUSHED OUT BUT 3:01 · HE SAYS THIS IS IT. 3:03 · TALK TO THE FOLKS WATCHING AT 3:04 · HOME WHY THIS IS THE GAME 3:07 · CHANGER. 3:08 · >> YOU KNOW, NEUTRON IS 3:09 · IMPORTANT FOR A COUPLE OF 3:11 · REASONS. 3:11 · ONE, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY A 3:14 · BREAKING OF THE MOLD OF A KIND 3:15 · OF A PSEUDO-MONOPOLY 3:19 · FOR THE FALCON 9 VEHICLE IN 3:20 · THE MARKET SO THERE ISN'T 3:21 · ANYTHING COMPETING TO 3:23 · COMPETITIVE TO THAT VEHICLE, SO 3:25 · IT OFFERS ALL OF THEIR 3:27 · GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCIAL 3:28 · CUSTOMERS, YOU KNOW, A DIFFERENT 3:30 · AVENUE TO GET TO ORBIT SO THAT'S 3:31 · IMPORTANT BUT EQUALLY WELL, IT 3:33 · ALSO PROVIDES US AS A COMPANY 3:36 · MULTI-TERM LIFT CAPABILITY 3:38 · FOR OUR OWN STUFF, SO YOU KNOW, 3:39 · WE'VE MADE NO SECRET OF THE FACT 3:42 · THAT EVENTUALLY, OUR INTENTION 3:43 · HERE IS TO DEPLOY OUR OWN 3:46 · CONSTELLATION SO HAVING A 3:47 · MULTI-TON CAPABILITY, 3:50 · HIGH-CADENCE LAUNCH VEHICLE IS A 3:51 · GAME CHANGER FOR SURE. 3:52 · CHARLES: THERE WAS ANTICIPATION 3:54 · THAT THE LAUNCH IS A BIG MOVE 3:56 · FROM FOURTH QUARTER THIS YEAR TO 3:57 · FIRST QUARTER NEXT YEAR. 3:58 · HOW COMFORTABLE YOU WERE SAYING 4:00 · THAT'S CERTAINLY GOING TO 4:02 · HAPPEN? 4:02 · >> WELL LOOK. 4:05 · IT'S A ROCKET PROGRAM, RIGHT? 4:06 · AND ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE 4:08 · SHIFTED THAT A LITTLE BIT IS WE 4:09 · HAVE A METHOD FOR DEVELOPING 4:11 · THIS STUFF AND THAT METHOD HAS 4:13 · PROVEN TO BE EXTREMELY GOOD AND 4:14 · RELIABLE AND IF WE THINK ABOUT 4:16 · IT LIKE THE REALITY IS IN 4:17 · THE WORLD TODAY THERE'S BEEN TWO 4:19 · COMMERCIAL COMPANIES THAT HAVE 4:21 · BOUGHT A LAUNCH VEHICLE TO 4:22 · MARKET AND MADE IT RELIABLE AND 4:24 · SCALED INTO ANY KIND OF CADENCE 4:26 · AND IT'S BASICS AND ROCKET LAB 4:28 · AND WE AREN'T GOING TO DEVIATE 4:30 · FROM OUR PATH THAT'S PROVEN TO 4:31 · DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY RELIABLY AND 4:34 · LOOK, NOBODY REMEMBERS A ROCKET 4:36 · THAT TOOK A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO 4:37 · GET TO THE LAUNCH PAD AND LAWN 4:39 · OF SUCCESSFULLY. 4:40 · EVERYBODY REMEMBERS THE ROCKET 4:41 · THAT BLOWS UP THE LAUNCH PAD SO 4:45 · JUST INTERESTED IN BEING IN 4:47 · THAT. 4:47 · CHARLES: I GOT YOU, YOU POINT 4:49 · THAT OUT VERY OFTEN ON YOUR 4:51 · WEBSITE. 4:51 · BEFORE I LET YOU GO WE'RE TRYING 4:53 · TO THINK OF WHERE ALL OF 4:54 · THIS GOES CAN YOU QUANTIFY 4:56 · THE TOTAL ADDRESSABLE MARKET 4:58 · FOR THIS? 4:58 · IT JUST FEELS LIKE THERE'S SO 4:59 · MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU. 5:01 · >> LOOK, THERE REALLY IS. 5:04 · THE OPPORTUNITIES IN SPACE RIGHT 5:05 · NOW ARE JUST MASSIVE AS YOU 5:07 · POINT OUT AND REALLY, YOU KNOW, 5:08 · IF I HAD TO SIT DOWN AND CAPTURE 5:11 · THE GLASS OF WINE IT'S REALLY 5:12 · A.I. AND SPACE, THE TWO BIG 5:15 · OPPORTUNITIES AS WE STAND 5:17 · FORWARD. 5:17 · CHARLES: PETER, CONGRATULATIONS 5:18 · MAN, YOU WERE AHEAD OF THE CURVE 5:20 · AND HAVE DONE EXTRAORDINARILY 5:21 · WELL AND COULD HAVE OWNED 5:23 · THIS STOCK A LITTLE MORE THAN A 5:24 · YEAR AGO FOR $5.50 S
I Bought shares in Rocketlab a couple years ago and continue to add. I would love to own SpaceX but it is private. Both are hiring like crazy. Rocketlab just opened a launch site in Wallops Island, VA. They are in it for the long haul. Very promising company.