Rocket Lab ( RKLB 2.80%) stock rocketed to a 10th straight day of gains Friday, surging 5.7% through 11:15 a.m. ET after announcing the New Zealand-based space company announced yet another big rocket launch contract. And once again, it's with near-neighbor Japan.

The competition for airspace is just beginning as the space age kicks into high gear on the Space Coast. At the center of it all is SpaceX, which seeks to bring its game-changing Starship to Florida but with a sobering cost,

Depending on weather and cloud cover, a Florida rocket launch from Cape Canaveral could be seen from Daytona, New Smyrna Beach to Vero and Fort Pierce

Rocket launches from Florida occur at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is an hour east of Orlando theme parks

For Rocket Lab to set you up for life, several factors would need to align, including investing an adequate amount of capital and achieving stellar returns that compound over time. For example, if you invested $20,000 in Rocket Lab and it returned 20% annually over the next 25 years, it would be worth approximately $1.9 million.

And we don't make you work six and a half days a week, 12 hours a day." Kemp also accused Firefly Aerospace of sending Astra "garbage" rocket engines as part of the companies' partnership on propulsion for Astra's next-generation rocket.

Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon fleet and upcoming Starship.

After years of consistent growth with its small Electron rocket system, the company is set to test and debut a new rock