Rocket Lab landing barge and recovery infrastructure under development for Neutron reusability; AFRL point-to-point cargo mission (return-to-Earth focus) scheduled no earlier than 2026

“Since the mission is all about bringing things back to Earth AFRL will fly on a return to Earth Neutron no earlier than 2026. We know reentry and rocket usability is a critical advancement in space tech that the DOD is highly supportive of which is why Neutron has been designed from the get-go for reuse and frequency...Adam said before it's you know it's all hands to the pump internally to make sure that we hit our our objective of getting that off in the second half and then you know it's also paired with a lot of the cash flow dynamics are tied to get that first launch off but there's also some things that we're doing in parallel to getting the first launch off which is kind of priming the business to be able to scale kind of efficiently and rapidly after that first launch including things like investing in this return on investment barge.”