Show Notes
In this episode of Te Kuaka we turn our focus to Rocket Lab, the little Kiwi start up sending rockets into space from Mahia.
Max Harris speaks with Sonya Smith from Rocket Lab Monitor, and journalists Nicki Hager and Ollie Neas about Rocket Lab, the role of militaries in space and where Aotearoa New Zealand fits in all of this.
Listen in on how Rocket Lab's activities have affected tangata whenua, the wider community, and zoom all the way out to see the global implications of blasting American military payloads out to orbit.
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