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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Archimedes is a reusable liquid oxygen/methane gas generator cycle engine designed and manufactured in-house by Rocket Lab.
Neutron is a reusable rocket in development by Rocket Lab designed to provide cost-effective, reliable, and responsive launch services for building mega-constellations and delivering large spacecraft to low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and interplanetary destinations.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. delivered the final solar panels to Maxar that will fly on the Power and Propulsion Element for NASA’s Gateway lunar space station.
The solar panels incorporate Rocket Lab’s quadruple-junction Z4J solar cells and utilize automated assembly methods developed by Rocket Lab’s Albuquerque-based team for high-volume production of satellite solar panels.
SolAero Technologies Inc., acquired by Rocket Lab, was awarded a contract in 2019 from Maxar to design and manufacture the solar panels for Gateway.
The Archimedes Test Complex at Stennis Space Center will be home to engine testing for the 165,000 lbf engines to be used on Rocket Lab’s reusable Neutron rocket.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has begun operations for testing the Archimedes engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has been selected by Inmarsat Government to develop and manufacture an L-band radio in support of NASA’s Communications Services Project.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE spacecraft, a NASA pathfinder satellite designed to test the same orbit intended for Gateway.
Rocket Lab USA Inc. launched its 32nd Electron mission to deploy the company's 152nd satellite to orbit.
Rocket Lab launched a Swedish atmospheric science satellite on an Electron rocket on 2022-11-04.
The 2022-11-04 mission was Rocket Lab’s second attempt to perform a mid-air recovery of an Electron booster.
Rocket Lab will use a modified Sikorsky S-92 helicopter to catch and secure the Electron first stage by its parachute line.
MATS is scheduled to launch at 6:20 p.m. CET on 2022-11-04 from New Zealand on a Rocket Lab launch vehicle.
The "Catch Me If You Can" launch window opens on 2022-11-04, UTC from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1.
On 2022-11-01, Rocket Lab provided the first notice of the 2022-11-04 launch including both the payload and the recovery plans.
Modifying the existing A-3 test stand reduces lead time to test and develop Rocket Lab’s Archimedes engine compared with creating a new test complex from scratch.
On 2022-09-21, Rocket Lab signed a 10-year agreement to use the A-3 test stand at Stennis Space Center with an option to extend the agreement for 10 more years.
Modifying the A-3 test stand will allow Rocket Lab to begin using it in a matter of months rather than the years required to build a new test facility.
The Mississippi Development Authority offered a capital incentive to Rocket Lab to support modification of the A-3 test stand.