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 supply HawkEye 360 with separation systems produced by Planetary Systems Corporation.
Rocket Lab is supplying Photon spacecraft buses for the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft and committed to adhere to the mission’s $55,000,000 cost cap.
BlackSky has additional Rocket Lab launches planned later 2022.
BlackSky’s constellation totals 14 satellites after adding two satellites launched on 2022-04-02 by Rocket Lab’s Electron from New Zealand.
E-Space is preparing to deploy its first satellites on a Rocket Lab mission scheduled for no earlier than 2022-04-19.
BlackSky expanded its constellation from 12 to 14 high-resolution satellites following Rocket Lab’s 2022-04-02 mission 'Without Mission a Beat'.
Rocket Lab launched a mission on 2022-04-02 that carried two BlackSky satellites.
BlackSky expanded its constellation from 12 to 14 high-resolution satellites following a Rocket Lab launch on 2022-04-02.
Rocket Lab is contracted to launch another pair of BlackSky satellites on a dedicated Electron mission scheduled for later 2022.
Rocket Lab has deployed a total of 112 satellites to orbit.
Rocket Lab deployed two satellites to orbit for real-time geospatial intelligence company BlackSky.
Rocket Lab updated its revenue projection for the first quarter from $42–47 million to approximately $40,000,000.
Rocket Lab postponed the second Electron flight of the year from March to April due to weather.
The StriX β launch on 2022-02-28 was the first of a three-launch deal between Synspective and Rocket Lab that was agreed in 2021-12-01.
Alba Orbital’s next mission, Alba Cluster X, is due to launch from New Zealand on Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle in NET 2022-04-01.
Rocket Lab updated its expected fiscal 2022-01-01 revenue outlook from a range of $42,000,000 to $47,000,000 to approximately $40,000,000.
Since 2019, Rocket Lab has delivered the majority of BlackSky's constellation to orbit on Electron missions.
On 2022-03-21, E-Space contracted Rocket Lab to launch three demo satellites in the second quarter of 2022.
Rocket Lab will launch Alba Orbital’s cluster of small satellites from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula in 2022-04-01.
Alba Orbital arranged for the Acme PocketQubes to fly on Rocket Lab’s Electron in a PocketQube cluster that includes Alba Orbital’s Unicorn-2, Acme’s MyRadar1, and TRSI-2 and TRSI-3.