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 recently signed launch agreement with Rocket Lab provides Aurora with an accelerated on-ramp to space during a critical phase of the company’s growth and technology development.
Rocket Lab will launch AuroraSat-1 for Aurora Propulsion Technologies on an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula in 2021-10-01 as part of a rideshare mission.
All three Photon spacecraft for Varda will incorporate Rocket Lab-designed and built components including radios, reaction wheels, and star trackers.
Rocket Lab has signed a deal with Varda Space Industries to produce three Photon spacecraft that will integrate with Varda’s space factories and support in-space manufacturing with return to Earth in Varda’s re-entry capsule.
Alchemy and its twin satellite Augury were launched in November 2020 as part of the Dragracer mission by Millennium Space Systems, TriSept Corp., Tethers Unlimited, and Rocket Lab.
Rocket Lab currently operates two Photon spacecraft on orbit named Photon First Light and Photon Pathstone, launched in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
After the 'Love At First Insight' launch, Rocket Lab's total number of satellites launched will reach 107.
Rocket Lab will build and launch three Photon spacecraft for Varda Space Industries to serve as platforms for Varda’s space manufacturing hardware.
The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley contracted Rocket Lab on 2021-06-15 to study using Photon for the EscaPADE mission to Mars.
LeoStella produced the six BlackSky satellites using its high throughput satellite factory and shipped them to Rocket Lab’s launch site in New Zealand.
The upcoming BlackSky missions are part of a multi-launch agreement between BlackSky, Spaceflight Inc., and Rocket Lab announced earlier 2021.
Rocket Lab’s planned three back-to-back missions will enable BlackSky to fast-track plans for a constellation intended to produce multiple images within 24 hours rather than one image at the same time each day.
LeoStella produced the six satellites using its high-throughput satellite factory and shipped them to Rocket Lab’s launch site in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab will launch the first of the three missions from Pad A at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand and is working through pad selection for the other missions.
Unseenlabs launched BRO-1 in August 2019 and launched BRO-2 and BRO-3 in November 2020 on Rocket Lab vehicles.
On 2021-08-10, Rocket Lab scheduled the three launches between late August and the end of September from New Zealand as part of a multi-launch agreement with BlackSky arranged by launch services provider Spaceflight earlier 2021.
Rocket Lab has not yet used the second pad at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab performed three Electron launches between late October and mid-December 2020.
Rocket Lab is planning to launch the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission from Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula.
The Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise initially awarded the OSP-4 contract in October 2019 to Aevum, Firefly Black, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Rocket Lab USA, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., United Launch Alliance, VOX Space, and X-Bow Launch Systems.