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, Inc. completed the first of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy TROPICS on 2023-05-08.
Rocket Lab has launched a total of 161 satellites to orbit following the 'Rocket Like a Hurricane' mission.
Rocket Lab’s kick stage deployed the two TROPICS cubesats about 35 minutes after liftoff and ground stations confirmed deployment about 20 minutes later.
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launched a pair of NASA cubesats designed to monitor the development of tropical storms.
NASA selected Rocket Lab in November 2022 to launch the remaining four TROPICS satellites on two dedicated Electron launches from Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab is preparing two dedicated Electron launches to deploy the TROPICS storm monitoring satellite constellation for NASA.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc’s space and STEM education programs have reached more than 20,000 students across New Zealand.
More than 129 Rocket Lab engineers and technicians have been trained to provide interactive educational experiences through the Space Ambassadors program.
Rocket Lab launched the Space Ambassadors program in July 2021.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. will release its financial results for the first quarter of 2023 following the close of U.S. markets on Tuesday, 2023-05-09.
A total of 350 Rutherford engines have been launched to space since Rocket Lab’s first Electron launch in 2017.
Rocket Lab manufactures Rutherford engines at its headquarters in Long Beach, California.
Rocket Lab recovered an Electron first stage on 2023-03-24 following 'The Beat Goes On' mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
The ST-16HV was announced in 2023 as the latest new satellite component following Rocket Lab’s February 2023 releases of the Frontier-X satellite radio and the constellation-class 12 Nms reaction wheel assembly.
Any Department of Defense organization can procure launch services from Rocket Lab through the Defense Innovation Unit’s Solutions Catalog following the prototype’s success.
Rocket Lab will launch a pre-flown 3D-printed Rutherford engine on an upcoming commercial Electron mission scheduled for lift-off in the third quarter of 2023.
Lane 1 of NSSL Phase 3 will seek bids for less-demanding missions to low Earth orbit and is intended to attract new entrants such as Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace, and Relativity Space.
Rocket Lab’s star trackers are deployed on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Mandrake 1 and Mandrake 2 satellites.
Increasing the number of vehicles produced in Rocket Lab’s factory reduces per-unit costs for its orbital business.
Rocket Lab recovered an Electron first stage on 24 March 2023 following 'The Beat Goes On' mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.