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 has flown more than 185 star tracker units overall.
Rocket Lab’s heritage ST-RT star tracker has more than 175 units on orbit since 2013.
Rocket Lab designed the ST-HP to withstand more than 50 kRad of board-level total irradiation dose.
Rocket Lab's Neutron launch vehicle is expected to begin qualification testing later in 2026.
Rocket Lab and JAXA collaborated on the "Kakushin Rising" mission.
Rocket Lab achieved back-to-back launch success within 26 hours.
Rocket Lab deployed satellites for JAXA's Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration program on the Kakushin Rising mission.
Rocket Lab confirmed payload deployment for the "Kakushin Rising" mission on its 87th Electron launch.
Rocket Lab completed its 87th launch by deploying eight satellites to orbit on an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1.
Rocket Lab executed its second dedicated mission for JAXA on April 23, 2026.
Rocket Lab’s "Kakushin Rising" mission is a dedicated launch for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency carrying eight satellites built across Japan.
Rocket Lab deployed the payload for "Kakushin Rising" on its 87th Electron launch.
Rocket Lab’s HASTE "Bubbles" launch succeeded.
Rocket Lab’s "Kakushin Rising" mission will place its payloads into a 540 km low Earth orbit to support in-space demonstrations of new technologies.
Rocket Lab's Kakushin Rising mission launched from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 3:09 p.m. NZT.
Rocket Lab's Kakushin Rising mission was its 8th mission of 2026 and its 87th flight overall.
Rocket Lab confirmed payload deployment for the Kakushin Rising mission on its 87th Electron launch.
JAXA was the customer for Rocket Lab’s "Kakushin Rising" payload deployment.
The satellite manifest for Rocket Lab’s "Kakushin Rising" mission includes educational small satellites, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration of ultra-small multi-spectral cameras, and a deployable antenna designed to be compacted using origami-style folding and expanded in orbit.
Rocket Lab's Kakushin Rising mission was the second of two dedicated launches it conducted for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.