Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company and launch service provider, specializing in small satellite launches with its Electron rocket, which has launched 63 times as of April 2025. They are also developing the larger Neutron rocket for constellation deployment. Rocket Lab provides complete space solutions including satellite design and manufacture, spacecraft components, and on-orbit management, serving commercial, civil, and defense markets, with major partners including NASA and the US Space Force. Key products include the Electron and Neutron rockets, Photon satellite bus, and various satellite components.
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Rocket Lab is slated to deploy NorthStar’s initial batch of satellites from its launch site in New Zealand.
Spire Global previously launched with Rocket Lab on Electron missions Still Testing and Its Business Time in 2018.
Rocket Lab added the mission to its 2023 launch manifest after the mission was removed from a now-defunct launch provider’s schedule to provide an expedited launch.
The dedicated mission will use Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle to deploy four satellites to a 530 km circular orbit.
Rocket Lab is contracted to launch NorthStar’s first four satellites this fall on an Electron rocket.
Spire previously launched on Rocket Lab’s Electron during the rocket’s first two commercial missions, Still Testing and Its Business Time, in 2018.
Multiple aerospace companies have agreed to acquire Virgin Orbit’s assets out of bankruptcy, including Rocket Lab.
Rocket Lab and Spire committed to deliver NorthStar’s satellites to space on an accelerated timeline.
Space Flight Laboratory selected Rocket Lab to launch Telesat’s LEO 3 demonstration satellite to provide continuity for customer and ecosystem vendor testing campaigns following the decommissioning of Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite.
The dedicated mission on Rocket Lab’s Electron will deploy the satellites to a 530 km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
HASTE is derived from Rocket Lab's Electron rocket but features a modified Kick Stage for hypersonic payload deployment.
Rocket Lab's wholly-owned subsidiary, Rocket Lab National Security (RLNS), will primarily operate HASTE.
Rocket Lab USA successfully launched its first suborbital testbed launch vehicle, called HASTE, for a confidential customer.
The inaugural launch of HASTE took place on June 17 at 21:24 Eastern local time from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 2 at Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia serves as the launch site for HASTE.
The inaugural HASTE launch launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab projected 15 Electron launches overall in 2023, a figure that includes both orbital and HASTE missions.
Rocket Lab launched the first suborbital variant of its Electron vehicle, Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE), on 2023-06-17.
The 2023-06-17 HASTE flight was the sixth Electron launch for Rocket Lab in 2023.
The inaugural HASTE launch launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 within the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.