Watch this space …

Many people in the Woodcocks Road and Mason Heights area of Warkworth have been fascinated lately by the construction of a giant rocket-shaped object behind ITSS Engineering, whose premises are next door to space company Rocket Lab.

The massive metal structure stands at least 15 metres tall and is clearly visible above the rooftops of surrounding buildings.

While both ITSS and Rocket Lab were saying nothing last week, the object does uncannily resemble the top section of Rocket Lab’s new Neutron reusable orbital launcher.

The 13,000kg payload class rocket is being developed in Warkworth from carbon composite, the curing process for which generally requires a mould …