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 'In Focus' Electron launch deployed ten commercial small satellites to a 500 km circular orbit.
The 'In Focus' mission deployment brought the total number of payloads deployed by Rocket Lab to 65.
TriSept integrated ten cubesats that launched in December 2018 on a Rocket Lab Electron as part of NASA’s 19th Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa-19) mission.
TriSept plans to integrate the cubesat with the dispenser at Rocket Lab’s Long Beach, California facility about 30 days before the scheduled launch date.
Eta Space received a $27,000,000 award to fly LOXSAT 1, a small satellite to test liquid oxygen storage technologies, and is working with Rocket Lab to use the Photon satellite bus and launch LOXSAT 1 on an Electron rocket.
The RL-5 mission, dubbed 'In Focus' by Rocket Lab, will launch on a Rocket Lab Electron from Launch Complex 1 at the southern tip of Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.
The launch window for Rocket Lab’s RL-5/In Focus mission opens 2020-10-20 at 5:14 p.m. ET.
Rocket Lab chief executive Peter Beck discussed a privately funded small spacecraft mission to Venus planned for 2023 that would launch on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket and use a version of the Photon satellite bus.
Sara Seager has been in discussions with Rocket Lab about a Venus mission and is involved in planning a compact instrument capable of fitting within a 3-kilogram science payload.
Rocket Lab did not disclose plans in advance to test Photon on the 2020-08-30 launch.
First Light is Rocket Lab’s first satellite that the company built and designed.
Rocket Lab worked with a select group of customers while developing Photon.
Rocket Lab announced the Photon satellite bus in April 2019.
The launch on 2020-08-30 used Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket in the company’s first flight since a failure on 2020-07-04.
Rocket Lab successfully launched a radar imaging satellite for Capella Space on 2020-08-30.
Capella Space’s Sequoia satellite was scheduled to launch no earlier than 2020-08-30 at 11:05 p.m. from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand launchpad.
Rocket Lab performed its VCLS mission in December 2018, launching 10 CubeSats for NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative and three additional satellites for other customers.
NASA awarded VCLS contracts in 2015 to Firefly Space, Rocket Lab, and Virgin Galactic for one launch from each company.
Rocket Lab is the only new U.S. small launch provider that had deployed satellites to orbit as of the article’s publication in August 2020.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded Rocket Lab a contract on 2020-06-18 for back-to-back launches of its Electron rocket from New Zealand in 2021.