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 operates a private launch site with Launch Complex 1, a production line of flight-ready Electron rockets, and multiple launch pads to enable flexible scheduling.
Rocket Lab’s first launch for Synspective, named 'The Owl’s Night Begins', deployed the StriX-α satellite on an Electron vehicle in December 2020.
Rocket Lab will open a new space systems complex in Littleton, Colorado near the current offices of Advanced Solutions, Inc. on 2022-02-02.
Rocket Lab acquired Advanced Solutions, Inc. in October 2021.
Covid-related restrictions in New Zealand caused a gap of nearly four months between Rocket Lab launches in 2021.
Rocket Lab won a NASA contract in 2020 for the launch of the lunar smallsat CAPSTONE.
Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit carried out VCLS launches under contracts awarded in 2015.
As of early January 2022, Rocket Lab had not announced how many launches it planned for 2022 and had not set a date for its next mission.
Astra, Rocket Lab, and Virgin Orbit went public in 2021 through SPAC mergers, each raising hundreds of millions of dollars.
Rocket Lab closed the transaction to acquire SolAero Holdings, Inc. for $80,000,000 in cash.
The Electron mission named "Without Mission A Beat" is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch window that opens 2022-02-04 UTC.
The SolAero acquisition follows Rocket Lab’s acquisition of ASI Aerospace LLC in October 2021, Planetary Systems Corporation in December 2021, and Sinclair Interplanetary in April 2020.
Rocket Lab’s CAPSTONE mission for NASA is scheduled to launch from New Zealand in the first half of 2022.
Rocket Lab executed the agreement to acquire SolAero on 2021-12-13 pending certain closing conditions.
Rocket Lab’s employee locations include space manufacturing complexes, test facilities, and launch sites in California, Virginia, Colorado, Maryland, Toronto, New Zealand, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Rocket Lab purchased Advanced Solutions, Inc., a flight software and guidance systems company, in October 2021.
Rocket Lab completed a SPAC merger in 2021.
Rocket Lab will pay $80,000,000 in cash for Albuquerque, New Mexico-based SolAero.
Rocket Lab acquired Planetary Systems Corporation on terms announced 2021-11-15 and that deal closed on 2021-12-01.
Rocket Lab acquired satellite component manufacturer Sinclair Interplanetary in early 2020.