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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Each Capella Space mission will feature separation systems produced by Rocket Lab as part of Rocket Lab’s vertical integration strategy.
Each Capella Space mission will feature separation systems produced by Rocket Lab in line with the company’s vertical integration strategy.
Rocket Lab delivered a Capella satellite to space previously on the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical mission in August 2020.
Rocket Lab completed a Wet Dress Rehearsal at Launch Complex 2 and the mission is awaiting range clearances from NASA and the FAA to proceed with launch.
Rocket Lab projected overall revenue of $51–54 million for the first quarter of 2023.
Three Rocket Lab launches in the first quarter of 2023 are projected to account for $19,000,000 in revenue.
Rocket Lab has the option to move the Capella Space launches from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand to Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia.
The planned launches in early 2023 position Rocket Lab to conduct as many as 15 Electron launches in 2023.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. 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 secured a multi-launch deal for four Electron missions for Capella Space scheduled to begin in the second half of 2023, each mission deploying a single Acadia SAR satellite to low Earth orbit.
The four newly signed Capella Space missions are planned to lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand with flexibility to move any mission to Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia if required.
Rocket Lab estimates water recovery increases recoverable Electron launches to about 60–70%.
Globalstar selected MDA and Rocket Lab in February 2022 to supply an initial 17 satellites for launch by the end of 2025 under a contract worth $327,000,000.
Rocket Lab has launched national launching security payloads developed in partnership with Australia’s Department of Defence.
Rocket Lab established a wholly-owned subsidiary named Rocket Lab Australia on 2023-02-28.
Rocket Lab’s Neutron is designed to lift 8,000 kg to low Earth orbit with a recoverable first stage or up to 15,000 kg to low Earth orbit with an expendable first stage.
Federal ranges accounted for 50 of 69 FAA-licensed launches in fiscal year 2022, representing 83% of U.S. FAA-licensed launches when excluding Rocket Lab’s Electron launches from New Zealand.
EscaPADE redesigned its mission to use Photon satellite buses from Rocket Lab and could launch as soon as 2024.
Rocket Lab received a VADR task order in November for launching four TROPICS cubesats and the procurement database later listed that award at $12,990,000 with about $2,600,000 obligated to date.
Rocket Lab announced in 2021 that it would develop redesigned versions of the ESCAPADE spacecraft for launch in 2024, and the mission passed a review that year to proceed into full-scale development.