Rocket Lab launched their Electron rocket for its ... The nine 3D-printed Rutherford engines on Electron’s first stage ignited at T-2 seconds – and after a quick check of vehicle systems ...

with Rocket Lab authorized through flight #8 and six Electrons and up to 100 Rutherford engines (total this year) in production/pre-production at the company’s Huntington Beach, CA, facility.

Rocket Lab named one of its rocket engines "Rutherford" after the Nobel Prize-winning New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, because of his quote: "We've got no money, so we've got to think." ...