[isostatic]

However Rocket Lab's launch of their new Electron rocket, from New Zealand, has made it to orbit successfully.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2018/01/21/space-star...

[spike021]

Not sure how that launch is relevant, here.

[Taniwha]

They don't need a govt funded/owned/run launch space to launch, they built their own

[muthdra]

Their government doesn't have a launch pad.

[vpribish]

to try circling this back to relevancy: NZ is a fantastically business-friendly country where the shenanigans we (US) have to put up with just don't seem to occur (I had a business there for a while, so this isn't just their tourist propaganda talking).

also - I swear I heard a sheep on the launch video for electron.