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 aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
The CAPSTONE launch was scheduled to take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula as early as 10:00 a.m. UTC / 6:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. PDT on 2022-06-27.
Globalstar procured additional satellites from MDA and Rocket Lab that are expected to launch in 2025.
The GLIDE spacecraft will launch with NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 spacecraft that was built by Ball Aerospace and is powered by Rocket Lab components.
NASA approved a revised EscaPADE plan in 2021 that uses Rocket Lab Photon spacecraft buses with greater propulsion capabilities than the original design.
Ball Aerospace selected Rocket Lab to manufacture the Solar Array Panel for NASA’s GLIDE mission spacecraft planned to launch in 2025.
Rocket Lab provided power to NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched in 2018 and is the first mission to approach the Sun closely.
Rocket Lab operates three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small orbital launch vehicle and the Photon satellite platform.
The Rocket Lab Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and the first private commercial mission to Venus.
Rocket Lab provided power to the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, which launched in 2015 to study Earth’s magnetosphere.
Rocket Lab operates a second launch site in Virginia, USA that was expected to become operational in 2022.
Rocket Lab is one of the companies that went public through a SPAC merger.
Rocket Lab's stock price has fallen to less than half of its original SPAC value of $10 per share.
Rocket Lab has taken steps to diversify its business and serve a wider range of markets.
CAPSTONE is planned to launch no earlier than 2022-05-31 aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab planned three Electron launches in the second quarter of 2022, two of which had already taken place at the time of the report.
Rocket Lab’s April 2022 Electron launch carrying two BlackSky imaging satellites was postponed from late March 2022 because of weather.
Rocket Lab will begin payload integration of CAPSTONE with the Electron rocket and Photon spacecraft bus ahead of the launch window opening on 2022-05-31.
Rocket Lab’s launch business generated $6,600,000 in revenue in the first quarter of 2022 from a single Electron launch.