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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Capella plans to launch its Whitney constellation satellites on rockets flown by Rocket Lab, SpaceX and other providers.
Capella doubled the size of its satellites and redesigned the reflector antenna for its Whitney constellation of seven satellites scheduled to begin launching 2020 on rockets flown by Rocket Lab, SpaceX and others.
Rocket Lab will receive a Defense Production Act Title 3 contract to launch two rideshare missions for government customers over the next 24 months.
Faraday-1 is a cubesat developed by British company In-Space Missions that will fly as the seventh satellite on Rocket Lab’s 2020-07-03 Electron launch and is designed to carry a variety of hosted payloads.
Aevum, Astra, X-Bow, Rocket Lab, Space Vector, and VOX Space were selected to receive Defense Department contracts funded under the Defense Production Act to shore up domestic industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The two NRO-contracted Electron launches will take place from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand from pads LC-1A and LC-1B.
SAM.gov posted a 2020-06-18 announcement that Aevum, Astra, X-Bow, Rocket Lab, Space Vector, and VOX Space will each receive noncompetitive contracts to launch two rideshare missions for government customers over the next 24 months.
The primary payload on Rocket Lab’s 2020-07-03 Electron launch is an imaging satellite developed by Canon.
Rocket Lab announced on 2020-06-18 that it received the National Reconnaissance Office contracts for two Electron missions that were awarded in the late spring of 2021.
The NRO used the RASR contract vehicle to launch three payloads on an Electron rocket on 2020-06-13.
Rocket Lab is planning its first launch from Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia in the third quarter of 2020.
Rocket Lab rescheduled an Electron launch for 2020-06-11 local time from its launch site on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab named the 2020-06-11 mission "Don’t Stop Me Now" and assigned it the same set of payloads as originally announced in March.
Rocket Lab completed construction of a launch complex at Wallops Island, Virginia and plans to launch an Air Force satellite from Wallops in August.
Rocket Lab offers the Photon small satellite platform and is pursuing an integrated service combining its launch services with Photon to provide a one-stop shop.
Rocket Lab launched the Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) satellite for DARPA in 2019.
Rocket Lab plans to soon launch the 12th mission of its Electron rocket that was originally scheduled for 2020-03-27.
Rocket Lab was preparing to launch an Electron rocket with three National Reconnaissance Office payloads when New Zealand moved to Level 4 pandemic restrictions in March, forcing postponement of the launch.
Rocket Lab announced in December that the Monolith payload would be the first to launch from the new LC-2 pad and that the pad had been scheduled for use in the second quarter of 2020.
Rocket Lab is a privately funded company that operates the Electron small launch vehicle and has recently introduced its own line of small satellites.