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 will test its Archimedes engines for the Neutron rocket at the A-3 test stand at Stennis Space Center.
Rocket Lab launched General Atomics’ GAzelle spacecraft on its 31st Electron mission earlier 2022-10.
IMM solar cells are powering General Atomics’ GAzelle spacecraft that Rocket Lab launched on its 31st Electron mission earlier 2022-10.
Rocket Lab acquired SolAero Technologies Inc in January 2022.
Rocket Lab acquired SolAero Technologies in January 2022.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to supply solar panels for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers (CADRE) program.
Rocket Lab acquired SolAero Technologies Inc. in January 2022.
Rocket Lab will supply HawkEye 360 with separation systems produced by Planetary Systems Corporation.
The Wallops mission will be the first of three Electron launches for HawkEye 360 under a contract that will deliver 15 satellites to low Earth orbit between late 2022 and 2024.
Planetary Systems Corporation is a Maryland-based space hardware company acquired by Rocket Lab in December 2021.
Thirty-one Electron missions have launched from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab advertises launch capabilities from New Zealand and Virginia’s Wallops Island and offered a “24/7 rapid call-up launch capability.”
Rocket Lab has successfully launched at least one mission every month since April 2022.
Rocket Lab launched two National Reconnaissance Office missions, NROL-162 on 2022-07-13 and NROL-199 on 2022-08-04.
CAPSTONE was launched in 2022-06-01 and was deployed from Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon kick stage on 2022-07-04.
Rocket Lab is developing Neutron, a medium-class reusable launch vehicle announced in 2021.
Rocket Lab signed a second, confidential customer for an Electron launch from LC-2 scheduled in January following the December launch.
Rocket Lab has missions scheduled from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand and an inaugural mission planned from Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Rocket Lab has successfully launched at least one mission every month since April 2022.
Rocket Lab will test the Archimedes engines at a facility it is leasing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.