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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For the second quarter of 2023, Rocket Lab expects GAAP gross margins between 14% and 16%.
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.
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 deployed two satellites to space for NASA’s TROPICS mission on the first of two dedicated Electron launches scheduled in May 2023.
Rocket Lab launched three successful Electron missions in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 for commercial constellation operators HawkEye 360, Capella Space, and BlackSky.
HASTE stands for Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron and is a suborbital variant of the Electron vehicle announced by Rocket Lab in April 2023.
Rocket Lab expects $23,000,000 in launch revenue in the second quarter from three Electron launches.
For the second quarter of 2023, Rocket Lab expects an Adjusted EBITDA loss of $22,000,000 to $24,000,000.
All HASTE launches will take place from Launch Complex 2 and require Rocket Lab to pay range fees to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility that are factored into prices.
Rocket Lab has carried out four Electron launches so far in 2023, including a 2023-05-07 launch that placed two NASA TROPICS cubesats into orbit.
Neutron development is continuing with expanded launch and testing facilities, engine hardware being printed at Rocket Lab’s Long Beach headquarters, and vehicle hardware in production for upcoming structural tests during 2023.
Rocket Lab has launched NASA missions since 2018, including the ELaNa-19 educational CubeSat program.
Rocket Lab reported $19,600,000 in launch revenue in the first quarter from three Electron launches.
Rocket Lab signed a deal on 2023-05-09 to launch NASA’s Starling mission.
Rocket Lab signed multiple new Electron launch contracts in 2023 for undisclosed commercial satellite customers previously manifested on another small launch vehicle.
For the second quarter of 2023, Rocket Lab expects Launch Services revenue of approximately $23,000,000.
Rocket Lab developed and launched a high-energy variant of Photon in 2022 that deployed the CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit for NASA.
NASA signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch a constellation of four cubesats called Starling to test autonomous swarm technologies in low Earth orbit.
For the second quarter of 2023, Rocket Lab expects Space Systems revenue between $37,000,000 and $40,000,000.
Rocket Lab has launched a total of 161 satellites to orbit.