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 plans to launch HASTE exclusively from Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft will provide power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 120 kg capsule that will produce pharmaceutical products in microgravity and return them to Earth.
Rocket Lab has a $143,000,000 subcontract from MDA to lead the design and manufacture of 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar’s new Low Earth Orbit satellites.
Rocket Lab developed, manufactured, and tested the Varda spacecraft at its Spacecraft Production Facility in Long Beach, California.
The Varda spacecraft incorporates Rocket Lab-designed and manufactured star trackers, propulsion system, reaction wheels, solar panels, flight software, radios, composite structures and tanks, and separation systems.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft for Varda launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission on 2023-06-12 at 14:35 PDT (21:35 UTC).
Rocket Lab bought Virgin Orbit’s main production facility in Long Beach at the 2023-05-22 auction.
Rocket Lab developed, manufactured, and tested the Varda spacecraft at its Spacecraft Production Facility in Long Beach, California.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft for Varda Space Industries is successfully operating in orbit after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft will provide power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 120 kg capsule that will produce pharmaceutical products in microgravity and return them to Earth.
The Varda spacecraft incorporates Rocket Lab-designed and manufactured star trackers, a propulsion system, reaction wheels, solar panels, flight software, radios, composite structures and tanks, and separation systems.
Rocket Lab is leading the design and manufacture of 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar under a $143,000,000 subcontract from MDA.
Rocket Lab developed, manufactured, and tested the Varda spacecraft at Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Production Facility in Long Beach, California.
Rocket Lab is developing a growing list of complete satellites that includes a $143,000,000 subcontract from MDA to lead the design and manufacture of 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar’s new LEO satellites.
The Varda spacecraft incorporates Rocket Lab-designed and manufactured components and software including star trackers, propulsion system, reaction wheels, solar panels, flight software, radios, composite structures and tanks, and separation systems.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft built for Varda Space Industries is operating on-orbit after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-06-12 on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission at 14:35 PDT (21:35 UTC).
Varda Space Industries launched its W-Series 1 spacecraft on Transporter-8, and Rocket Lab built the spacecraft.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft provides power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 120 kg capsule that will produce pharmaceutical products in microgravity and return them to Earth.
SFL selected Rocket Lab to deliver the LEO 3 satellite to space on an accelerated timeline within four months of contract signing to meet Telesat’s program requirements.
Rocket Lab signed a deal to launch the LEO 3 satellite for Telesat on an Electron mission scheduled for 2023-07-01.