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 Rocket Lab launches enable BlackSky to offer one-hour average, dawn-to-dusk imaging revisits and 90-minute average delivery times for customers.
Myriota planned two additional smallsat launches in 2021 following the Rocket Lab mission.
BlackSky secured five Rocket Lab missions to deploy nine satellites between March and the end of 2021.
BlackSky 7 launched at 22:30 UTC on 2021-03-22 on Rocket Lab’s 'They Go Up So Fast' mission.
BlackSky secured five Rocket Lab missions to deploy nine satellites between March and the end of 2021.
LeoStella produced the nine BlackSky Gen-2 satellites that are being delivered to Rocket Lab’s launch site in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab will provide dedicated Electron launches for BlackSky to support tailored orbits and launch schedule certainty.
BlackSky 7 launched at 22:30 UTC on 2021-03-22 on Rocket Lab’s “They Go Up So Fast” mission.
BlackSky has worked with Rocket Lab since 2019.
Rocket Lab launched BlackSky 7 on 2021-03-22.
On 2021-03-25 BlackSky signed an agreement with Rocket Lab to launch eight satellites before the end of 2021.
LeoStella produced the nine BlackSky Gen-2 satellites that were delivered to Rocket Lab’s launch site in New Zealand.
The first of BlackSky’s Rocket Lab launches took place on 2021-03-22.
BlackSky secured five Rocket Lab missions to deploy nine satellites between March and the end of 2021.
Rocket Lab’s Kick Stage uses a relightable Curie engine to lower altitude and deploy additional satellites to different orbits, including a final deployment to a 450 km circular orbit on the 19th mission.
The 19th Electron mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 22:30 UTC on 2021-03-22.
Bessemer Venture Partners owns 20.5% of Rocket Lab and 6.5% of Spire.
Electron first reached an initial 550 km circular orbit before Rocket Lab’s Kick Stage deployed the first five satellites to their individual orbits on the 19th mission.
The 19th Electron mission increased Rocket Lab’s total number of satellites deployed to orbit to 104.
The University of New South Wales Canberra Space M2 technology demonstration spacecraft follows the M2 Pathfinder mission that deployed on Rocket Lab’s 12th mission in June 2020.