Nobody in this cabinet's 2013 drawer saw the small rocket coming - least of all from Auckland. Electron quietly became the West's most-flown rocket after Falcon 9, the company acquires spacecraft subsystems businesses the way others issue press releases, and Neutron - the deliberate Falcon 9 challenger - targets first flight late 2026 after a tank-test setback in January. The 2013 cohort promised that launch would one day be routine. Rocket Lab is the one that made it boring, which in this industry is the highest compliment on file.