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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand entrepreneur Peter Beck said his space firm Rocket Lab was the result of a lifelong quest for signs of life outside earth, as the startup hit a new milestone with a Nasdaq listing on Thursday.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck poses alongside a Rutherford rocket engine in Auckland, New Zealand, October 20, 2015. Picture taken October 20, 2015. REUTERS\/Nigel Marple<\/figcaption>

The small satellite launch firm, often compared to Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, listed on the Nasdaq Composite on Thursday with a market capitalisation of about $4.4 billion.<\/p>\n

Rocket Lab agreed in March to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm backed by private equity firm Vector Capital, the latest in a series of space firm listings involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC).<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me personally, the biggest question that I can possibly answer in my lifetime, and the biggest question for everybody on earth really comes down to are we the only life in the universe or not,\u201d Beck told Reuters from New Zealand after the listing.<\/p>\n

Growing up in Invercargill, a city near the southern tip of New Zealand\u2019s South Island, he first got interested in space when his father pointed to the stars and said there could be someone watching him from there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the most mind-blowing moment in my young life. So I promised myself that if I ever had the chance to answer the question, which is fundamentally important to the way we think, I would have a crack. I am pleased to have this opportunity. We have spacecraft, launch pads and the team to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rocket Lab was selected this year to develop a spacecraft for a NASA mission to Mars. The company is also leading a private mission to Venus in 2023, working with a leading science team that discovered a gas called Phosphine in the clouds of Venus last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a life-finding mission, it\u2019s a high risk mission and the very first private mission to another planet,\u201d said Beck.<\/p>\n

Rocket Lab, whose backers have included defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp, has launched over 100 satellites into space since 2006.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s Electron launch vehicle has become the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered 105 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organisations.<\/p>\n

Beck said that while there are many competitors with more funding and time, Musk\u2019s Space X and Rocket Lab are the only ones delivering regular commercial space missions.<\/p>\n

Rocket Lab is also eyeing more acquisitions to help build scale for its space transport and space systems business. In April last year, it acquired Canadian company Sinclair Interplanetary.<\/p>\n

After an initial bump to $11.60 at its Nasdaq debut, the firm\u2019s shares dropped nearly 10%, settling at $10.43. New shares were issued at US$10.00 each.<\/p>\n

But Beck dismissed the debut share price drop: \u201cWe are in this for the long haul.\u201d<\/p>\n

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