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 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.
All Photon spacecraft incorporate Rocket Lab-designed and manufactured components and software including star trackers, propulsion, reaction wheels, solar panels, flight software, radios, composite structures and tanks, and separation systems.
Rocket Lab completed and shipped a custom Photon spacecraft developed for Varda Space Industries.
A high-energy variant of Rocket Lab’s Photon was developed and launched in 2022 and successfully deployed the CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit for NASA.
The Photon spacecraft was developed, manufactured, and tested at Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Production Facility in Long Beach, California.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft is a configurable spacecraft bus platform that can support missions from low Earth orbit to interplanetary destinations.
All Photon spacecraft incorporate Rocket Lab-designed and manufactured components and software including star trackers, propulsion, reaction wheels, solar panels, flight software, radios, composite structures and tanks, and separation systems.
A high-energy variant of Photon was developed and launched by Rocket Lab in 2022 and successfully deployed the CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit for NASA.
Rocket Lab USA signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission.
The Rocket Lab-designed and built Photon spacecraft will provide power, communications, propulsion, and attitude control to Varda’s 120 kg capsule.
Rocket Lab USA completed and shipped a custom Photon spacecraft developed for Varda Space Industries.
Rocket Lab has launched NASA missions using Electron since 2018.
The Photon spacecraft was developed, manufactured, and tested at Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Production Facility in Long Beach, California.
Starling joins a list of NASA missions launched by Rocket Lab since 2018 that includes the ELaNa-19 educational CubeSat program, the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon, and two dedicated Electron launches for the NASA TROPICS mission.
For the second quarter of 2023, Rocket Lab expects GAAP operating expenses between $55,000,000 and $57,000,000.