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Adam Spice

Chief Financial Officer, Rocket Lab

Search every verified Adam Spice interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Adam Spice, Chief Financial Officer of Rocket Lab, participated in several investor-focused interviews and the company's Q2 2026 earnings call in August 2026. During these appearances, he discussed the company's financial outlook, stating that the path to positive EBITDA is clear and consistent, with the expectation of turning meaningfully positive in the quarter following a successful test launch of the Neutron rocket. He also commented on the proposed acquisition of Aridium, describing it as a move that would reshape the company's financial profile and expand its capabilities into space applications, positioning Rocket Lab as an end-to-end space company. Spice also addressed the company's launch demand and backlog, noting that launch now accounts for less than a third of revenue. He discussed the significance of the Neutron program's tenth flight as a key milestone for scaling cadence, and mentioned ongoing considerations about infrastructure expansion, such as adding launch pads, which require 18 to 24 months of lead time. In the Q2 earnings call, he highlighted the quarter as a milestone for strategic acquisitions, including the closing of Manaric and Motive and the announced intent to acquire Aridium.

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“Well, I would just say keep an eye on how we build our backlog because that's really the indication of where the business is going. So, it's all about building the backlog, expanding margin, and again, Neutron is a huge huge piece of that. But you know, people think of us as a launch company, which you know, we we we are and we and launch is incredibly strategic and compelling piece of the business, but it's now less”

“I think it's probably less about integrating. It's more about expanding into a bigger market, right? And putting the third leg of the stool in place for us, which was always, you know, to be the end-to-end space company. We started off with launch, which is actually the hardest part of the whole ecosystem. Then we migrated our way into building satellites and satellite subsystems. So now that we can build satellites,”

“I think the path to positive is very clear and it's been very consistent. It's really getting that first Neutron launch off. So we've been pretty consistent in saying like the quarter after we have our successful test launch of Neutron we should flip meaningfully just even to positive. So that's completely independent of Iridium. I think to your point I think Iridium completely reshapes the financial profile of the b”

“I think the biggest strategic thing that that that Aridium brings for us is the ability to kind of spring into lots of other applications opportunities without having to reinvent the wheel which again would be very costly and and take a lot of time.”

“I think the path to positive EVA does very clear and it's been very consistent. It's really getting that first Neutron launch off. So and we've been pretty pretty consistent saying like the quarter after we we have our successful test launch of Neutron we should flip meaningfully just even positive. So that's completely independent of Aridium. I think to your point I think Aridium completely reshapes the financial pr”

“I think the path to positive EBITDA is very clear and it's been very consistent. It's really getting that first Neutron launch off. So we've been pretty consistent saying like the quarter after we have our successful test launch of Neutron we should flip meaningfully just even positive. That's completely independent of Iridium. I think Iridium completely reshapes the financial profile of the business and I don't thin”

Other executives at Rocket Lab

  • Peter Beck, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

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