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Author: Tom Pullar-Strecker

It’s an understatement to say it takes a risk-taker to build a rocket company from scratch in New Zealand.

But Peter Beck seems surprisingly nonchalant about Rocket Lab’s latest mission to build a much larger, “reusable” rocket to capture a different and larger slice of the satellite launch market.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/124444473/new-rocket-will-be-work-horse-for-space-industry-says-rocket-labs-peter-beck
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Author: Thomas Burghardt

To date, Rocket Lab has successfully introduced the first dedicated small satellite launch vehicle, Electron, which CEO Peter Beck said would never be reusable. Then, the company successfully recovered a first stage. Now, Beck says Rocket Lab is ready to do something else he previously said they’d never do: build a big rocket.

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Article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/03/rocket-lab-reveals-neutron/
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Author: Mark Quinlivan

There are no new community cases of COVID-19 to report on Sunday - Auckland's first day out of alert level 3 restrictions.

A Ministry of Health spokesman said on Sunday that just one new coronavirus case has been detected at the border in the past 24 hours.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/03/covid-19-no-new-coronavirus-cases-found-in-the-community.html
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Author: Ben Graham

The European Union has been blasted as a "total disgrace" for allowing Italy to block a quarter of a million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from reaching Australia — and some Brits are even offering to forego their jab so more can be sent here.

Amid a botched rollout across the EU, the Italian government notified Brussels of its decision to prevent 250,000 doses from being exported to Australia at the end of last week.

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Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/total-disgrace-eu-blasted-for-allowing-italy-to-block-astrazeneca-shipment-to-australia/V2ELPT7V2N2TW4LDBOASMAQJKU/
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Author: Anna Whyte

New Zealand has gone into bat for its trans-Tasman neighbour over a shipment of Covid-19 vaccines destined for Australia that was blocked from leaving the European Union. 

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/ardern-rails-against-protectionism-eu-blocks-250k-vaccines-headed-australia
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Author: RNZ

There have been no new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today, with the country's alert levels set to shift tomorrow morning.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/437788/covid-19-update-no-new-community-cases-in-new-zealand-ahead-of-alert-level-changes
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Author: Jack Tame

The estate for Doctor Seuss
Has made a public call 
It’ll keep publishing his books
But it won’t publish them all.  

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-morning-with-jack-tame/opinion/jack-tame-dr-seuss-issue-not-black-and-white/
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Author: Robert Farley

Here's What You Need To Remember: In East Asia, all of Japan, China, South Korea, and India either have blue water forces, or are moving quickly in that direction. Australia might join them, although this would require a workable replacement strategy for the Collins-class submarines.

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Article: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-brazil-and-australia-can-join-blue-water-navy-club-179120
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