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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Rocket Lab’s 2021-01-20 Electron launch placed a payload built by OHB Group into a circular orbit at an altitude of 1,200 km.
Rocket Lab plans to open a second pad at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in the second quarter of 2021 and plans to install the strongback structure followed by final commissioning.
OHB procured the launch in August and Rocket Lab agreed to launch the payload within six months.
Rocket Lab successfully launched its 18th Electron mission, 'Another One Leaves The Crust,' on 2021-01-20 at 07:26 UTC.
Rocket Lab's planned 2021 launches include the first launches from Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia, and from a second pad at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab successfully launched a communications satellite for German company OHB Group on 2021-01-20.
The 'Another One Leaves The Crust' mission increased Rocket Lab’s total number of satellites launched to 97.
The 'Another One Leaves The Crust' mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula to an initial elliptical orbit.
Rocket Lab planned a Photon mission to the Moon in support of NASA’s CAPSTONE program in 2021.
The OHB launch was the first of Rocket Lab's planned launches for 2021.
Rocket Lab planned to launch the first missions from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia and from Pad B at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in 2021.
The payload for Rocket Lab’s scheduled Electron mission is a single communications satellite built by OHB that will enable specific frequencies to support future services from orbit.
Rocket Lab’s 2021 Electron manifest includes planned first launches from a second pad at New Zealand’s Launch Complex 1 and from Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab scheduled an Electron mission called "Another One Leaves the Crust" to launch no earlier than 2021-01-16 from its New Zealand launch site.
The Space Test Program STP-27RM mission scheduled to fly on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket did not launch in 2020.
The United States accounted for 44 launches in 2020, including seven launches by Rocket Lab, a U.S.-headquartered company that launches from New Zealand.
The National Reconnaissance Office has procured commercial launches from Rocket Lab that are licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Rocket Lab launched its 17th Electron mission, named 'The Owl’s Night Begins', on 15 December 2020 at 10:09 UTC from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula.
The mission increased Rocket Lab’s total number of payloads deployed to 96.
Rocket Lab successfully launched its 17th Electron mission on 2020-12-15.