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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OHB revealed plans to develop its own rocket targeting the small satellite market served by Rocket Lab’s Electron.
Rocket Lab is completing Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab scheduled the next step toward Electron first-stage reuse for a launch in a two-week window that opens 2019-11-25.
Rocket Lab is developing a new range control facility for Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab started using Rosie on 2019-11-13.
Part of Rosie was built in Italy and the rest was built in New Zealand, where Rocket Lab manufactures Electron rockets.
Rocket Lab unveiled a custom-designed robotic manufacturing system named Rosie to speed manufacturing of the Electron rocket.
Rocket Lab developed a new bipropellant propulsion system for the Curie kick stage that serves as the basis for the Photon bus.
Under an agreement announced 2019-10-22, Rocket Lab will provide Electron and Photon customers access to the KSAT network of ground stations as an additional service.
Rocket Lab added lunar payload services to the Photon satellite bus on 2019-10-21.
The FAA launch operator license is a five-year license dated 2019-10-09 that allows Rocket Lab to carry out a series of missions without obtaining a separate launch license for each mission provided the launches fit parameters such as launch site and azimuth.
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched a single cubesat for Astro Digital on 2019-10-16.
Rocket Lab launched the R3D2 spacecraft on 2019-03-28.
Rocket Lab is nearing completion of its second launch site, Launch Complex 2, which is the company’s first launch site in the United States and was expected to be ready for its first Electron launch in early 2020.
Rocket Lab achieved a construction milestone on 2019-09-18 with the installation of the launch platform for Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Combined operation of Rocket Lab’s LC-1 in New Zealand and LC-2 at Wallops provides roughly 130 launch opportunities.
With the launch platform in place at LC-2, Rocket Lab crews began installing final site systems including the strongback that supports the rocket, as well as wiring and plumbing.
Rocket Lab is seeking to achieve a monthly launch cadence by the end of the year.
Rocket Lab launched four small satellites on 2019-08-19 on an Electron mission dubbed "Look Ma, No Hands."
Rocket Lab pursued plans announced on 2019-08-06 to attempt to recover and reuse the Electron first stage.