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 is scheduled to launch another Synspective mission in 2022 and a third Synspective mission in 2023.
Rocket Lab signed a three-launch contract with Synspective in late 2021.
Rocket Lab has deployed a total of 110 satellites to orbit.
Operating two pads at Launch Complex 1 allows Rocket Lab to eliminate pad recycle time between missions to support more frequent launches.
The MEI Project Approval Commission provided $15,000,000 in site improvements and building construction in support of Rocket Lab’s Neutron.
Rocket Lab will manufacture the satellite buses and will use solar panels, structures, reaction wheels, and software from companies it acquired in the last two years.
Globalstar selected MDA Ltd. and Rocket Lab to supply a set of satellites to replenish its constellation.
MDA awarded a $143,000,000 contract to Rocket Lab to provide the satellite buses for the Globalstar satellites.
Rocket Lab operates a third launch pad at Launch Complex 2 in Virginia, USA.
Rocket Lab’s December 2020 mission for Synspective, named ‘The Owl’s Night Begins’, deployed the StriX-α satellite.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. completed a second orbital launch pad at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab planned to deliver CAPSTONE in spring and intended to race Artemis 1 to the pad this spring.
BlackSky doubled its small satellite constellation through a Rocket Lab launch campaign and completed a SPAC merger to become a public company by the end of 2021.
CAPSTONE will launch on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket using a version of Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus to send the stage on a lunar trajectory.
Planned Rocket Lab launches from Wallops in 2020 and 2021 were postponed due to delays in NASA’s effort to develop and certify an autonomous flight safety system for Electron launches.
Rocket Lab selected the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia’s Wallops Island as a second launch site in 2018.
Virginia provided Rocket Lab a $5,000,000 grant to support the company’s Wallops operations.
Rocket Lab designed the Electron launch vehicle and its launch complexes to provide satellite operators with flexible launch schedules.
Rocket Lab’s December 2020 Electron mission named The Owl’s Night Begins deployed the StriX-α satellite.
Companies seeking vertical integration can acquire suppliers as part of M&A strategies, as Rocket Lab did with three supplier acquisitions in the fall prior to the article.