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 USA, Inc. has been selected by MDA Ltd. to develop the Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC) for Globalstar’s growing constellation.
Rocket Lab will supply HawkEye 360 with separation systems produced by Planetary Systems Corporation.
Rocket Lab has developed a new high-volume spacecraft manufacturing line at its Long Beach facility to support growing customer demand.
Planetary Systems Corporation is a Maryland-based space hardware company acquired by Rocket Lab in December 2021.
HawkEye 360’s constellation of radio frequency monitoring satellites will grow through the Rocket Lab missions to improve precise geolocation of radio frequency emissions.
HawkEye 360 has contracted three dedicated Rocket Lab flights and the Cluster 6 launch is the first of those three.
HawkEye 360 scheduled its Cluster 6 next-generation satellites to launch during a 13-day window that opens on 2022-12-07 aboard Rocket Lab’s inaugural Electron flight from Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
EscaPADE revised its mission design to use spacecraft buses from Rocket Lab and is slated for launch in 2024.
Globalstar has ordered a new generation of satellites from MDA Ltd. and Rocket Lab to primarily support its partnership with Apple.
Rocket Lab will supply Lightband separation systems produced by its subsidiary Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC).
Rocket Lab developed Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to support U.S. customers.
Planetary Systems Corporation is a Maryland-based supplier of separation systems and satellite dispensers that Rocket Lab acquired in 2021.
Cluster 6 is the first of three dedicated Rocket Lab USA Inc. flights contracted by HawkEye 360.
On 2022-11-09, Rocket Lab USA won two contracts worth $14,000,000 to provide separation systems for U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency satellites.
Rocket Lab will provide separation systems for 84 satellites built by Lockheed Martin and another undisclosed manufacturer for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Neutron is Rocket Lab’s reusable rocket in development designed to provide a cost-effective, reliable, and responsive launch service for building mega-constellations and delivering large spacecraft to low-Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and interplanetary destinations.
Rocket Lab USA began operations for testing the Archimedes engine with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Neutron is Rocket Lab’s reusable rocket in development designed to help build mega-constellations and deliver large spacecraft to low-Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and interplanetary destinations.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. kicked off operations for testing the Archimedes engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Rocket Lab successfully launched the CAPSTONE spacecraft, a NASA pathfinder satellite designed to test the same orbit intended for Gateway.