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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The new Rocket Lab production line will be able to produce up to 2,000 reaction wheels per year.
Rocket Lab performs work on its Photon satellite bus in Long Beach, California.
Rocket Lab began offering reaction wheels after acquiring Sinclair Interplanetary in April 2020.
Rocket Lab is expanding production of satellite components to meet demand from companies developing satellite constellations as of 2021-09-01.
Sinclair Interplanetary produced between 100 and 150 reaction wheels per year before its acquisition by Rocket Lab.
More than 16 new roles are expected to support the new production facility and Rocket Lab’s growing Space Systems operations by the end of the year.
Rocket Lab strengthened its Space Systems business in 2020 by acquiring Toronto-based Sinclair Interplanetary.
Since acquiring Sinclair Interplanetary, Rocket Lab has added 2,700 square feet of production facilities to the Sinclair facilities in Toronto, Canada.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is constructing a new production facility capable of supplying as many as 2,000 reaction wheels per year.
Rocket Lab plans to human-rate Neutron despite having no current plans to launch people on it.
Rocket Lab estimates that Electron and Neutron together can launch as much as 98% of commercial and government satellites forecast to launch through the end of the decade.
Rocket Lab’s Rutherford engines produce up to 25,401 kg-force of thrust and make extensive use of 3D printing and battery-powered pumps.
Rocket Lab’s SPAC merger was scheduled to complete in late August and the company set a goal of a first Neutron launch as soon as 2024.
Rocket Lab announced it was going public through a special-purpose acquisition company and unveiled the Neutron rocket in March.
Rocket Lab won a contract from the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory in June to develop a new EscaPADE design based on Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus.
Vector shareholders approved the merger with Rocket Lab on 2021-08-20, providing the company with $777,000,000 in capital.
Rocket Lab plans to launch six satellites for BlackSky between late August and the end of September from New Zealand.
Rocket Lab will perform a later attempt 2021 to recover the first stage of the Electron as part of its effort to make the stage reusable.
Rocket Lab unveiled the Neutron medium-class rocket in March at the same time it announced the SPAC deal.
Rocket Lab will provide an update on the Neutron rocket later 2021.