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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Airways New Zealand has supported Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches since 2017, when Rocket Lab launched its first rocket into space.
Airways New Zealand provides support in the preparation and execution of each Rocket Lab launch and works with the launch team to ensure a safe flight path through New Zealand’s airspace.
The 2021-11-17 mission was Rocket Lab’s third Electron mission to test the ability to recover and reuse the rocket’s first stage.
Rocket Lab completed a $470,000,000 PIPE when it went public through a SPAC earlier in the year.
The 2021-11-17 mission was Rocket Lab’s first Electron launch since 2021-07-29.
Rocket Lab has deployed a total of 107 satellites to orbit.
BlackSky has had five satellites successfully deployed to low Earth orbit on Rocket Lab missions across 2019 and 2021.
Two additional BlackSky satellites are scheduled to launch on Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission named 'A Data With Destiny' during a 14-day launch window that opens in December.
Rocket Lab purchased Advanced Solutions, Inc. (ASI) on 2021-10-12.
Rocket Lab was affected in 2021 by an Electron launch failure and by pandemic lockdowns in New Zealand that postponed launches.
Based on Rocket Lab’s closing stock price on 2021-11-15, the PSC acquisition has a total value of $81,400,000.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Planetary Systems Corporation for $42,000,000 in cash and 1,720,841 shares of Rocket Lab common stock plus the potential for an additional 956,023 shares of common stock as a performance earnout based on PSC’s CY 2022 and 2023 financial results.
Rocket Lab will purchase Maryland-based Planetary Systems Corporation for $42,000,000 in cash and 1.72 million shares of stock.
Rocket Lab expects NASA certification of the autonomous flight termination system could be completed as early as the end of the year, which would allow flight operations out of LC-2 and Wallops in the first half of 2022.
Rocket Lab announced the PSC acquisition on 2021-11-15.
Rocket Lab is awaiting NASA certification of an autonomous flight termination system required to launch Electrons from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab paid $40,000,000 to acquire Advanced Solutions, Inc.
Rocket Lab’s third-quarter adjusted EBITDA was –$17.5 million, within its projected loss range of $17–20 million.
The first of Rocket Lab’s two contracted fourth-quarter Electron launches for BlackSky is scheduled for 2021-11-17 after delays caused by a sensor problem and poor weather.
BlackSky plans to expand its constellation of imaging satellites from six to 12 by year-end pending the timing of planned launches from Rocket Lab's New Zealand pad.