Sheep, hills, remoteness and rockets. New Zealand is about to blast off from distant Mahia and into the world's $350 billion space economy.

NZ and the US sign a deal setting rules around rocket technology and providing a register on what's been blasted into space from our part of the world.

Auckland company Rocket Lab has signed another customer to launch small satellites into space later this year.

Kiwi space company Rocket Lab may be flying spacecraft to the lunar surface as soon as 2017.

Rocket Lab unveiled its turbo pump system overnight at the United States Space Symposium, a gathering of more than 10,000 involved in space technology in Colorado.