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 is building a factory just outside the Wallops gates to produce its Neutron reusable vehicle.
Rocket Lab plans to launch its Neutron reusable vehicle from a new pad at Wallops as soon as 2024.
Rocket Lab expects to conduct four to six Electron launches from Wallops in 2023 out of 14 Electron launches overall.
Spaceflight worked with SpaceX, Rocket Lab, PSLV/NSIL, and Astra as launch vehicle providers in 2022.
Rocket Lab originally expected to perform the first LC-2 launch in the second quarter of 2020 for the Defense Department’s Space Test Program.
Rocket Lab plans to use Wallops for its Neutron reusable launch vehicle and to produce Neutron at a factory just outside the Wallops gates.
NASA and Rocket Lab are completing additional analyses as part of final paperwork for the Electron launch prior to a 2022-12-15 launch readiness review.
Rocket Lab anticipated performing 14 Electron launches in 2023, four to six of which would be at LC-2.
LC-2 entering service will enable Rocket Lab to increase its launch rate from about one per month in most of 2022 in 2023.
HawkEye 360 signed a contract in April for three Electron launches, including the first Electron launch from Wallops.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. created a U.S.-based, wholly owned subsidiary named Rocket Lab National Security LLC to serve the defense and intelligence community.
Rocket Lab is creating a separate entity called Rocket Lab National Security to focus on U.S. defense and intelligence agency customers, announced 2022-12-01.
Rocket Lab will deliver the TROPICS CubeSats to their operational orbit within a 60-day period.
NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission under the Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract.
Integration of the three HawkEye 360 satellites to Electron will take place at Rocket Lab’s Integration and Control Facility in the coming days.
The planned Rocket Lab missions for HawkEye 360 will grow HawkEye 360’s radio frequency monitoring satellite constellation and enable more precise geolocation of radio frequency emissions globally.
Rocket Lab’s 32 Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 delivered 152 satellites to orbit for customers including NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, DARPA, the U.S. Space Force, and commercial constellation operators.
The mission will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
The 'Virginia Is For Launch Lovers' mission is the first of three Electron launches for HawkEye 360 under a contract that will see Rocket Lab deliver 15 satellites to low Earth orbit between late 2022 and 2024.
Rocket Lab completed a final launch rehearsal (Wet Dress Rehearsal) and is ready for lift-off for its first U.S. mission as early as 2022-12-07.