Rocket Lab is a US company, they would not have been able to build what they did without full ITAR and MTCR compliance.

Maybe you need to let them know.

They were founded in NZ by a NZer, they launch from NZ, their employees are NZers. Calling them a US company is equivalent to saying Google is Irish.

	▲	walrus01 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427351 Design and manufacturing is in the los angeles region aerospace industry cluster. It's been a US company for the last 13 years. https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/rocket-lab-makes-its-defen...
	▲	lightedman 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		RL incorporated in the USA to gain launch licenses. They've been an American company for over a decade at this point.