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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CAPSTONE launched on Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus aboard an Electron launch vehicle on 2022-06-28.
Cluster 6 was expected to launch on Rocket Lab's inaugural Electron mission from Wallops Island, Virginia, as early as December 2022.
Rocket Lab USA was awarded two contracts worth a total of $14,000,000 to provide satellite separation systems for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Rocket Lab’s Lightbands have delivered 100% mission success for more than 100 separations on orbit.
Rocket Lab’s separation systems were designed by Planetary Systems Corp, which Rocket Lab acquired in 2021.
Rocket Lab will supply more than 80 Lightband Separation Systems to prime contractor Lockheed Martin and another undisclosed customer that are manufacturing satellites for the SDA’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Rocket Lab’s Frontier-L radio is a transmitter designed to support Inmarsat Government demonstrations of TT&C applications enabled by Inmarsat’s ELERA worldwide L-band network, including Launch and Early Operations Phase, ubiquitous command and control, real-time tasking, and contingency operations for satellites in low Earth orbit.
CAPSTONE launched on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket on 2022-06-28 and was deployed from Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon kick stage onto a low-energy ballistic lunar trajectory on 2022-07-04.
HawkEye 360 Cluster 6 was expected to launch on Rocket Lab’s inaugural Electron mission from Wallops Island, Virginia, as early as December 2022.
Rocket Lab USA has been selected by Inmarsat Government to develop and manufacture an L-band radio in support of NASA’s Communications Services Project.
CAPSTONE launched on Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus aboard an Electron launch vehicle on 2022-06-28.
All 17 new Globalstar spacecraft platforms are being designed and manufactured at Rocket Lab’s Long Beach production complex and headquarters.
With Launch Complex 1 and Launch Complex 2 combined, Rocket Lab can support more than 130 launch opportunities every year for government and commercial satellite operators.
Rocket Lab was awarded a $143,000,000 contract in February 2022 to design and manufacture 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar’s new LEO satellites.
The Globalstar SOCC will provide 24/7 monitoring and management of Globalstar’s constellation using Rocket Lab’s MAX GDS.
Thirty-one Electron missions have launched from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab has two contracts totaling $14,000,000 to provide satellite separation systems for companies building the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites.
Rocket Lab will supply more than 80 Lightband Separation Systems to prime contractor Lockheed Martin and another undisclosed customer for the SDA’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is scheduled to launch its first Electron mission from Virginia in a launch window opening 2022-12-07, EST.
Planetary Systems Corporation designed Rocket Lab’s separation systems, which Rocket Lab acquired in 2021.