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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The acquisition will help Rocket Lab pursue future lunar and planetary exploration contracts, including a potential commercial Mars Sample Return mission.
Rocket Lab’s Neutron commercial launch manifest is filling up through the end of the decade before Neutron’s inaugural launch.
Rocket Lab expects the acquisition of Motiv Space Systems to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.
Rocket Lab’s tri-vehicle approach includes Electron for small satellite launch, HASTE for hypersonic testing, and Neutron for medium-lift constellation and national security missions.
Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket is also designed to eventually support human spaceflight.
Rocket Lab’s new launch contract covers five dedicated Neutron launches and three dedicated Electron launches between 2026 and 2029.
Rocket Lab has completed 87 Electron launches to date.
Rocket Lab’s total launch manifest now exceeds 70 missions.
Rocket Lab plans to rebrand Motiv Space Systems as Rocket Lab Robotics after the acquisition closes.
Motiv Space Systems’ Pasadena manufacturing facilities will join Rocket Lab’s network of advanced space manufacturing and development sites.
Rocket Lab signed a definitive agreement to acquire Motiv Space Systems, a Pasadena, California-based space robotics company.
Rocket Lab’s overall backlog is valued at more than $2.2 billion.
Rocket Lab Corporation booked the largest launch contract in its history with a confidential customer.
The upcoming mission will be Rocket Lab’s ninth dedicated launch for Synspective’s StriX constellation.
Rocket Lab and Synspective have completed nine dedicated missions for the StriX network.
Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission for Synspective’s StriX constellation is scheduled no earlier than 22 May from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab’s upcoming StriX mission has a launch window opening at 9:30 pm NZST, 09:30 UTC, 6:30 pm JST, 5:30 am EDT, and 2:30 am PDT.
Rocket Lab’s mission "Viva La StriX" will carry the next StriX satellite for Synspective.
Lockheed Martin, Rocket Lab, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris received Tranche 3 Tracking Layer awards from the Space Development Agency in December 2025.
The LOXSAT payload will fly aboard a Rocket Lab satellite launched on Electron.