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 plans to step up the pace of Electron launches following the 2018-11-10 success.
Rocket Lab dubbed the 2018-11-10 mission “It’s Business Time” and characterized it as the beginning of routine commercial operations.
Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket on 2018-11-10, lifting off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 10:50 p.m. Eastern (4:50 p.m. local 2018-11-11).
Rocket Lab is headquartered in California and operates launch operations in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab’s third Electron mission, dubbed "It’s Business Time," is scheduled to launch during a nine-day period that opens 2018-11-11 from the company’s launch site on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab opened a new vehicle manufacturing facility in Auckland, New Zealand in early October that is capable of producing one Electron rocket per week.
Rocket Lab broke ground 2018-10-17 on a second launch site at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island.
Rocket Lab plans to follow up the mid-November Electron launch with another Electron mission in December carrying a collection of cubesats from NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative under a contract awarded by NASA’s Venture Class Launch Services program in 2015.
Rocket Lab has raised nearly $150,000,000 for its Electron small launch vehicle, and Electron reached orbit on its second launch in January.
Rocket Lab plans to spend more than $20,000,000 on LC-2.
Rocket Lab plans to support as many as 12 Electron launches per year from Wallops.
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) will be built by Rocket Lab at the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
On 2018-10-17, Rocket Lab will build its second launch pad and first in the United States at Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab opened a new production facility in Auckland, New Zealand on 2018-10-12 that consolidates several smaller facilities.
The Kleos Scouting Mission will launch on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket in mid-2019 from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Kleos Space will launch its first satellites in 2019 with Rocket Lab under a deal announced on 2018-09-19.
Rocket Lab plans a launch in December followed by as many as 16 launches in 2019.
Rocket Lab operates its own launch facility in New Zealand, which the company considers a competitive advantage for range access and supporting high flight rates.
Since Rocket Lab's first successful launch in 2017, Interstellar Technologies has found it easier to raise money.
Rocket Lab reached an agreement on 2018-08-07 with a new Dubai-based smallsat company for 10 dedicated launches of its Electron small rocket.