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 expects marine recovery to increase the proportion of Electron missions suitable for recovery from around 50% to between 60% and 70% due to fewer weather constraints compared with mid-air capture and reduced helicopter-related costs.
Rocket Lab was selected by Dynetics (Leidos) to provide hypersonic test launch capability under the Multiservice Advanced Capability Test Bed (MACH-TB) project awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense.
The ST-16HV will be manufactured at the Sinclair by Rocket Lab facility where Rocket Lab already mass produces reaction wheels.
Rocket Lab will use the reflown Rutherford engine on an Electron launch scheduled for the third quarter of 2023.
Under the HyCAT initiative, Rocket Lab will explore integration of scramjet-powered payloads including the DART AE vehicle developed by Australian company Hypersonix Launch Systems.
Rocket Lab announced the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) vehicle on 2023-04-17.
Rocket Lab is planning as many as 15 Electron launches 2023.
DoD organizations can procure launch services from Rocket Lab via DIU’s Solutions Catalog due to the prototype’s success.
Under the HyCAT initiative, Rocket Lab will explore integration of scramjet-powered payloads including the DART AE vehicle developed by Hypersonix Launch Systems.
Rocket Lab was selected by Dynetics to provide hypersonic test launch capability under the Multiservice Advanced Capability Test Bed (MACH-TB) project awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Rocket Lab is developing a reusable medium rocket named Neutron designed to carry up to 13,000 kg to low Earth orbit.
ESCAPADE is one of the first missions to use NASA’s VADR contract after Rocket Lab was selected for two Electron launches of Earth science cubesats in November 2022.
The ST-16HV will be manufactured at the Sinclair by Rocket Lab facility where Rocket Lab already mass produces reaction wheels.
Rocket Lab’s Space Systems Division mass produces reaction wheels at the Sinclair by Rocket Lab facility.
Rocket Lab moved the TROPICS launches to ensure the satellites would be launched in time to be in service when the 2023 North Atlantic hurricane season begins.
Rocket Lab will launch NASA’s TROPICS constellation across two dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in May 2023.
Rocket Lab won a task order under NASA’s Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract in November 2022 to launch the remaining four TROPICS cubesats from Wallops.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. will launch NASA’s TROPICS constellation across two dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand scheduled for May 2023.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) will launch NASA’s four TROPICS satellites across two dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in May 2023.
Rocket Lab USA successfully launched its 35th Electron rocket from Mahia, New Zealand.