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 postponed a 2023-03-11 launch of its Electron rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia because of strong upper-level winds.
Rocket Lab had an aggregate balance with Silicon Valley Bank of approximately $38 million, representing approximately 7.9 percent of its total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of 2022-12-31, in a 2023-03-10 SEC filing.
Rocket Lab previously launched Capella Space’s first SAR satellite to orbit on the "I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical" mission in August 2020.
Rocket Lab conducted its inaugural Electron mission from Launch Complex 2 on 2023-01-24.
Rocket Lab has scheduled its next Electron launch from Virginia with a launch window that opens 2023-03-11.
The Stronger Together launch will be Rocket Lab’s second launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility following Rocket Lab’s inaugural LC-2 mission on 2023-01-24.
Stronger Together is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) on Wallops Island, Virginia for Capella Space.
Rocket Lab scheduled the Stronger Together launch from Virginia during a launch window that opens 2023-03-11.
Rocket Lab is investing approximately $250,000,000 in the development of the Neutron launch vehicle.
Rocket Lab previously launched for Capella Space on the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical mission in August 2020 when Electron deployed Capella’s first SAR satellite to orbit.
Rocket Lab plans to start flying Neutron in late 2024.
Rocket Lab’s Neutron is a medium-size reusable launch vehicle designed with NSSL in mind.
Rocket Lab is preparing to launch two dedicated Electron missions in March from the company’s launch sites in the United States and New Zealand within days of each other.
Rocket Lab completed a Wet Dress Rehearsal at Launch Complex 2 and the mission is awaiting range clearances from NASA and the FAA.
Rocket Lab operates Electron launch vehicles from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand and Launch Complex 2 in Virginia, United States.
Rocket Lab set a previous launch turnaround record at Launch Complex 1 in 2022 when it launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission followed by a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office 15 days later.
Rocket Lab operates three orbital launch pads across two continents to provide responsive and flexible launch services.
Each Electron mission in the Capella Space deal will deploy a single Acadia synthetic aperture radar Earth-imaging satellite to low Earth orbit.
Rocket Lab’s manifest for Capella Space includes the 'Stronger Together' mission scheduled to launch from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia in March 2023.
Rocket Lab previously launched a dedicated Electron mission for Capella Space in August 2020.