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 USA is preparing for the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA.
Rocket Lab USA successfully launched the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA.
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.
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).
Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle achieved its first orbital launch in January 2018.
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).
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is preparing for the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm-monitoring satellites for NASA.
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.
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.
Rocket Lab will use the leased Long Beach facility to support development of its Neutron rocket.
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.
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.
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.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is preparing the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of storm monitoring satellites for NASA.
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.
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.
Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle has been providing access to orbit for NASA since 2018.
Rocket Lab USA has signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft is a configurable spacecraft bus platform that can support missions from low Earth orbit to interplanetary destinations.
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.