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Rocket Lab

US

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.

commercialFounded 2006
History · 2 eventsMay 23, 2023 · Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy, assets sold to Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast/Launcher
Long Beach, California, United States
www.rocketlabusa.com
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Rocket Lab USA is preparing for the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0May 25, 2023Rocket Lab Sets Up for Second TROPICS Launch to Deploy NASA's Storm Monitoring Constellation

Rocket Lab USA successfully launched the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA.

PlanGeneralValue 4.2May 25, 2023UPDATE: A ‘Go’ for Rocket Lab — NASA’s TROPICS constellation is launched to orbit for storm monitoring

Rocket Lab has been selected as a successful bidder and is finalizing an asset purchase agreement to buy certain Long Beach, California aerospace production and manufacturing assets from Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries via Virgin Orbit’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction.

RelationshipsLegalValue 4.5May 24, 2023Rocket Lab Purchases Virgin Orbit's Long Beach California Assets to Support its Neutron Rocket Program

Rocket Lab’s bid includes the assumption of the lease to Virgin Orbit’s more than 144,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing complex at 4022 E. Conant St. in Long Beach, California (the Conant Facility).

RelationshipsValue 4.0May 24, 2023Rocket Lab Purchases Virgin Orbit's Long Beach California Assets to Support its Neutron Rocket Program

Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle achieved its first orbital launch in January 2018.

PlanCapabilityValue 2.5May 23, 2023Rocket Lab’s $16.1M purchase of Virgin Orbit’s Long Beach, California, assets bolster Neutron Rocket program

Rocket Lab’s bid includes the assumption of the lease to Virgin Orbit’s 144,000+ square foot headquarters and manufacturing complex at 4022 E. Conant St. in Long Beach, California (the Conant Facility).

RelationshipsValue 4.4May 23, 2023Rocket Lab’s $16.1M purchase of Virgin Orbit’s Long Beach, California, assets bolster Neutron Rocket program

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is preparing for the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm-monitoring satellites for NASA.

PlanGeneralValue 4.2May 23, 2023Rocket Lab’s May 25 launch is Coming to a Storm Near You with storm monitoring satellites for NASA’s TROPICS constellation

Rocket Lab and NASA are targeting no earlier than 12 a.m. EDT on Thursday, 2023-05-25 (4 p.m. NZST) to launch the second pair of storm-tracking CubeSats into orbit.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0May 23, 2023Rocket Lab’s May 25 launch is Coming to a Storm Near You with storm monitoring satellites for NASA’s TROPICS constellation

Rocket Lab bid $16,100,000 for the lease on Virgin Orbit’s main production facility in Long Beach, California along with machinery and equipment located there.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.6May 23, 2023Three companies to buy most Virgin Orbit assets

Rocket Lab will use the leased Long Beach facility to support development of its Neutron rocket.

CapabilityPlanGrowthValue 3.5May 23, 2023Three companies to buy most Virgin Orbit assets

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) was selected as a successful bidder to purchase certain Long Beach, California aerospace production and manufacturing assets from Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. in Virgin Orbit’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction.

RelationshipsValue 4.2May 23, 2023Rocket Lab’s $16.1M purchase of Virgin Orbit’s Long Beach, California, assets bolster Neutron Rocket program

Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and the first private commercial mission to Venus.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.3May 23, 2023Rocket Lab’s $16.1M purchase of Virgin Orbit’s Long Beach, California, assets bolster Neutron Rocket program

Rocket Lab operates three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site in New Zealand and a third pad in Virginia.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0May 23, 2023Rocket Lab’s $16.1M purchase of Virgin Orbit’s Long Beach, California, assets bolster Neutron Rocket program

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is preparing the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA.

PlanRelationshipsValue 4.2May 16, 2023Rocket Lab to Launch Second NASA TROPICS to Deploy Storm Monitoring Constellation

Rocket Lab completed the 'Rocket Like a Hurricane' Electron launch on 2023-05-08 which deployed the first two CubeSats of NASA’s TROPICS constellation.

PlanGeneralCapabilityValue 4.4May 15, 2023Rocket Lab Sets Date for Second NASA TROPICS Launch to Deploy Storm Monitoring Constellation

Starling joins other NASA missions launched by Rocket Lab since 2018, including the ELaNa-19 educational CubeSat program, the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon, and two dedicated Electron launches for the NASA TROPICS mission.

RelationshipsPlanValue 3.0May 15, 2023Rocket Lab to Launch Small Satellite Swarm for NASA

Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle has been providing access to orbit for NASA since 2018.

RelationshipsValue 3.8May 15, 2023Rocket Lab to Launch Small Satellite Swarm for NASA

Rocket Lab USA has signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0May 15, 2023Rocket Lab to Launch Small Satellite Swarm for NASA

Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft is a configurable spacecraft bus platform that can support missions from low Earth orbit to interplanetary destinations.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0May 11, 2023Rocket Lab Completes Photon Spacecraft for Varda Space Industries

The Rocket Lab-designed and built Photon 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.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0May 11, 2023Rocket Lab Completes Photon Spacecraft for Varda Space Industries
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