{"id":388199,"date":"2026-04-20T04:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T04:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:18:07","slug":"spacex-won-a-mars-mission-that-might-get-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388199\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Won A Mars Mission That Might Get Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"948\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rocket-lab-gauss-hall-effect-propulsion-system-v2-948x533.webp.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>Gauss thruster. Image: Rocket Lab<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab continued this week to expand its business offerings beyond launch, with the introduction of a new spacecraft thruster\u2014Gauss.<\/p>\n<p>The electric thruster is intended to both support Rocket Lab\u2019s own spacecraft programs, and to fill a gap in the industry. Thrusters are in high demand these days as commercial and <a href=\"https:\/\/payloadspace.com\/there-arent-enough-satellite-thrusters-for-the-sda-yet\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government customers<\/a> look to send more sats aloft, with the ability to maneuver in-orbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly technology development can be done at these small mom and pop shops, but when it really comes prime time to make things at scale, people like ourselves who are procurers of that, if they don\u2019t vertically integrate, they get very nervous that they won\u2019t have access to capital and expertise to scale production,\u201d Rocket Lab CFO Adam Spice told Payload. \u201cIt\u2019s all about derisking our ability to deliver on our commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/payloadspace.com\/rocket-lab-enters-the-thruster-market-with-gauss\/\" class=\"keep-reading-link\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gauss thruster. Image: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab continued this week to expand its business offerings beyond launch, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-388199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}