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 forecasted $51,000,000 to $54,000,000 in revenue for the second quarter of 2022.
Rocket Lab reported a net loss of $26,700,000 for the first quarter of 2022.
Rocket Lab’s 2022-05-02 launch carrying 34 smallsats was treated primarily as an R&D platform and produced only a de minimis revenue contribution.
Around ten minutes after liftoff on Electron, Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus with CAPSTONE attached will separate from the rocket and carry out a series of orbit-raising maneuvers that stretch its orbit into a prominent ellipse around Earth.
Rocket Lab reported an adjusted EBITDA loss of $8,000,000 for the first quarter of 2022.
Rocket Lab forecasted second-quarter 2022 revenue of $32,000,000 to $35,000,000 from space systems and $19,000,000 from launch.
Rocket Lab attempted to catch the Electron first stage in midair using a helicopter on the 2022-05-02 launch and the helicopter caught and then released the booster seconds later.
Rocket Lab reported $40,700,000 in revenue for the first quarter of 2022.
Rocket Lab won a $143,000,000 contract from Canadian company MDA in February 2022 to produce 17 spacecraft for Globalstar.
Rocket Lab’s space systems business generated $34,100,000 in revenue in the first quarter of 2022.
Rocket Lab’s backlog increased from $241,000,000 at the end of the fourth quarter of 2021 to $546,000,000 at the end of the first quarter of 2022.
Rocket Lab’s booster recovery systems reduce the vehicle’s payload by 10% to 15%.
Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus will deliver CAPSTONE into a trajectory toward the Moon.
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.
CAPSTONE will be launched to an initial low Earth orbit by Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle and then placed on a ballistic lunar transfer by Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus.
Rocket Lab operates two Photon spacecraft in low Earth orbit, and the CAPSTONE mission is the first to employ the high-energy variant of the Photon spacecraft bus powered by the HyperCurie engine designed for lunar and interplanetary missions.
Approximately ten minutes after liftoff on Electron, Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus with CAPSTONE attached will separate from the rocket and carry out a series of orbit-raising maneuvers.
Rocket Lab tested a midair recovery of its Electron booster during a 2022-05-02 launch.
The agreement with MDA and Rocket Lab includes an option for up to nine additional satellites at $11,400,000 each.
On 2022-02-24, Globalstar selected MDA and Rocket Lab to supply 17 satellites to replenish its constellation after a potential customer agreed to fund most of the $327,000,000 project.