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 Frontier-X radio has completed qualification and is slated to fly on NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars for which Rocket Lab is developing and building two spacecraft.
Rocket Lab’s Frontier-X is a high-speed X-band ranging RF transceiver designed to support near Earth, cislunar, and deep space small satellite missions and provide an affordable LEO payload downlink.
Space firms that went public through SPAC deals include Astra, Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, BlackSky, Spire, AST SpaceMobile, Satellogic, Planet, Terran Orbital, Virgin Galactic, Redwire, and Momentus.
Combined Rocket Lab space systems components, including star trackers, reaction wheels, separation systems, radios, flight software, ground software, and solar power solutions, have supported more than 1,700 space missions to date.
Spacecraft owned and operated by the U.S. government were launched aboard vehicles owned by SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and United Launch Alliance in 2022.
NASA and Rocket Lab did not disclose the value of the Rocket Lab launch deal, noting that pricing provided in response to launch service task orders under VADR is competed in a closed environment and considered proprietary to the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
Cluster 6 launched on 2023-01-24 on the inaugural flight of Rocket Lab’s Electron from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 is designed to support commercial, civil, defense, and national security customers with up to 12 missions per year.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) was built with support from Virginia Space, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and NASA Wallops Flight Facility and is designed to serve the responsive space needs of commercial, civil, defense, and national security customers.
The 2023-01-24 Electron mission was Rocket Lab’s first mission launched from Virginia.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at Wallops is capable of supporting up to 12 missions per year.
Rocket Lab successfully launched its 33rd Electron rocket on 2023-01-24 at 18:00 EST from Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket Lab will supply HawkEye 360 with separation systems produced by Planetary Systems Corporation following Rocket Lab’s acquisition of Planetary Systems Corporation in December 2021.
Rocket Lab will deliver 15 satellites to low Earth orbit for HawkEye 360 under a contract spanning 2023 and 2024.
Combined with Rocket Lab’s private Launch Complex 1 site in New Zealand, Rocket Lab’s launch sites can support more than 130 launch opportunities every year.
Rocket Lab will supply HawkEye 360 with separation systems produced by Planetary Systems Corporation.
Rocket Lab operated nine successful Electron missions in 2022.
Rocket Lab successfully launched its 33rd Electron rocket on 2023-01-24 at 18:00 EST.
Rocket Lab’s combined launch sites, including Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, can support more than 130 launch opportunities every year.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 was built with support from Virginia Space, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and NASA Wallops Flight Facility.