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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Spaceflight managed BlackSky payloads on Rocket Lab’s "Make It Rain" and "Look Ma, No Hands" missions in 2019.
Spaceflight managed a BlackSky payload on Rocket Lab’s "They Go Up So Fast" mission in 2021.
The first of the four dedicated BlackSky missions is scheduled to launch in May 2021 from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Momentus, Astra, Spire, BlackSky, Rocket Lab, and Redwire planned SPAC deals in 2021 that together intended to raise $2,800,000,000.
Rocket Lab is merging with Vector Acquisition Corp. SPAC to help develop a medium-class launch vehicle.
Rocket Lab will deliver the IT and software infrastructure necessary to task MethaneSAT on orbit, including tracking, pointing and positioning, and collision avoidance.
Rocket Lab has launched 19 missions, deployed more than 100 satellites, and operated its Photon spacecraft on-orbit.
BlackSky has launch plans with Rocket Lab to deploy eight additional satellites in 2021.
Two additional BlackSky satellites were shipped to a launch facility in New Zealand for BlackSky's Rocket Lab mission named "Running out of Toes" scheduled for May 2021.
BlackSky has launch plans with Rocket Lab to deploy eight additional satellites in 2021.
BlackSky shipped two additional satellites to a launch facility in New Zealand for a Rocket Lab mission named "Running out of Toes" scheduled for May 2021.
Two additional BlackSky satellites have been shipped to a launch facility in New Zealand for BlackSky’s next planned Rocket Lab mission named "Running out of Toes" scheduled for May 2021.
BlackSky has launch plans with Rocket Lab to deploy eight additional satellites during 2021.
Rocket Lab’s first recovery mission, 'Return to Sender,' launched in November 2020 and successfully deployed a parachute system and recovered an Electron stage from an ocean splashdown.
Rocket Lab’s Neutron launch vehicle under development is an 8,000 kg-class rocket designed for propulsive landing.
Under Michael Brown, the Defense Innovation Unit supported emerging space launch companies Rocket Lab, Virgin Orbit, and Relativity Space and selected those companies to launch experimental Department of Defense payloads.
Rocket Lab launched the nanosatellite Myriota 7 on 2021-03-22.
BlackSky-7 launched at 22:30 UTC on 2021-03-22 on Rocket Lab’s "They Go Up So Fast" mission.
Rocket Lab’s Electron mission named "They Go Up So Fast" launched a BlackSky satellite on 2021-03-22.
The first Rocket Lab launch in BlackSky’s five-mission agreement took place on 2021-03-22.