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Rocket Lab added 5 new Neutron Launches and 3 new Electron launches to their manifest with a confidential customer this quarter.

This is highly speculative, but in their Q1 earnings press release they say in regards to the Golden Dome partnership with Raytheon: "Rocket Lab’s launch and satellite capabilities are both being utilized for SBI". Notably, these launches are to be completed by 2029 which is when Trump wants the Golden Dome to be completed.

Could this launch contract be for the Golden Dome? If not, it seems that there is further launch bookings to be added in relation to the Golden Dome soon.

Q1 press release: https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-announces-first-quarter-2026-financial-results
New launch contract press release: https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-labs-biggest-launch-deal-yet-confidential-customer-books

As an outside observer of US-Politics, I find it interesting that when someone, or a group of people, from one side commits an atrocity, that sides' first instinct is to call it staged.

We saw this with January 6th. Trump supporters did not believe that their side was capable of storming the capitol, because they believe that they are peaceful and are on the right side of history. So they immediately looked for other explanations. "Trump requested 10,000 national guard officers, and democrats denied it to make it happen!", or "There were plants in the crowd riling everyone up", or "Nancy Pelosi staged it".

We are now seeing the same is true for the left. They don't believe that their own side is capable of assassinating a president. The only explanation is that it must be staged. It must be for Trumps PR, or to get his ballroom.

Neither side ever wants to believe that they are capable of anything bad. Trump supporters stormed the U.S capitol. The left have attempted to assassinate him several times now. They are both as bad as each other. This is an unpopular opinion, but I think people will have a hard time saying it's untrue.