The intent was more to be a Rocket Lab community for anyone on Lemmy, and not focused on NZ (other than the obvious bit where they do all their launches here). But I take your point about our carefully curated list of communities including one for worshiping a company. I'm interested to hear other people's views on this.

There are already generic space communities on other instances, and I'm not sure we could really justify splitting out the NZ space stuff. To be honest, the stuff you've listed I'd rather just see posted here in !nz instead of split out into another community.

I like that idea - I really want to get organised to go see a launch from up in Mahia sometime; especially as I can combine that with getting some of the best tuatuas in the country :)