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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The Governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, supports Rocket Lab’s presence at Stennis Space Center and cites Mississippi’s research capabilities and trained workforce as reasons for the state’s attractiveness.
Rocket Lab plans further Neutron expansion throughout the United States as the program develops toward its first launch.
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker supports Rocket Lab’s partnership with Stennis Space Center and notes that the Stennis A-3 test stand was saved from demolition by Congress in 2010.
Electron is scheduled to launch the "It Argos Up From Here" mission from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a launch window that opens 2022-10-05 UTC.
The "It Argos Up From Here" mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a launch window that opens on 2022-10-05 UTC.
Synspective launched its first commercial satellite on Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle on 2022-09-15.
StriX-1 was deployed on 2022-09-16 (JST) by Rocket Lab’s Electron from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab test-fired a Rutherford engine from the booster recovered from the May launch on 2022-09-01, demonstrating that the engine worked with only minimal refurbishment after its first flight.
Rocket Lab launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite on 2025-09-15.
The 2022-09-15 launch was Rocket Lab’s seventh Electron launch in 2022 and maintained a 100% mission success rate for 2022.
Rocket Lab delivered its 30th Electron mission and its 150th satellite to orbit on 2022-09-15 at 20:38 UTC.
The mission named "The Owl Spreads Its Wings" launched on the Electron rocket from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1.
Rocket Lab operates three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site in New Zealand and a second launch site in Virginia.
StriX-1 will join other StriX satellites launched by Rocket Lab in February 2022 and December 2020 as part of Synspective’s Earth observation constellation.
Rocket Lab launched CAPSTONE in June 2022 on its Electron rocket and injected the spacecraft into a ballistic lunar transfer trajectory using a Lunar Photon kick stage.
Rocket Lab USA signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the United States Transportation Command to explore using the company’s Neutron and Electron launch vehicles to transport cargo globally.
Rocket Lab USA will explore using its Photon spacecraft to establish on-orbit cargo depots and provide re-entry capability.
Apple will fund 95% of the costs of a new generation of satellites that Globalstar ordered in February from MDA Ltd. and Rocket Lab.
Photon is Rocket Lab’s in-house designed and built small spacecraft platform based on the heritage Electron Kick Stage.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the United States Transportation Command to explore using the company’s Neutron and Electron launch vehicles to transport cargo globally.