{"id":276516,"date":"2025-11-11T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276516\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:30:09","slug":"rocket-lab-delays-debut-of-spacex-challenging-rocket-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276516\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Delays Debut of SpaceX-Challenging Rocket to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/RKLB:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Rocket Lab Corp.<\/a> delayed the first launch of its larger Neutron rocket until next year, a setback in the space transportation company\u2019s push to compete more directly with Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Long Beach, Calif.-based company said it will deliver Neutron to its launch site during the first three months of 2026, with an inaugural mission \u201cthereafter,\u201d pending completion of final testing and other work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Corp. delayed the first launch of its larger Neutron rocket until next year, a setback in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,2347,63,99,5175,53114,18461,1449,68808,160351,159152,6113,128,285,5689],"class_list":["post-276516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-august","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-industries","tag-materials","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-peter-beck","tag-rocket-lab-corp","tag-san-francisco","tag-science","tag-space","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}