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 named the Gauss thruster after Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Rocket Lab introduced the Gauss electric satellite thruster for high-volume production.
Rocket Lab identified power as the gating factor to the scalability of data centers on orbit.
Rocket Lab has established a Gauss production line designed to produce more than 200 thrusters per year.
Rocket Lab founder and CEO Sir Peter Beck leads the company.
Rocket Lab has launched 850 Rutherford engines to space.
Rocket Lab’s acquisition of Mynaric AG establishes Rocket Lab’s first European footprint and expands its ability to support German and broader European space programs.
Rocket Lab paid $155.3 million in aggregate consideration for Mynaric AG, consisting of a nominal cash payment and 2,277,002 shares of Rocket Lab Common Stock.
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy approved Rocket Lab’s acquisition of Mynaric AG.
Mynaric provides CONDOR Mk3 optical communication terminals for Rocket Lab’s $1.3 billion prime contracts to produce 36 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Rocket Lab has completed its acquisition of Mynaric AG, a provider of laser optical communications terminals for air, space, and mobile applications.
Rocket Lab introduced a new electric spacecraft thruster called Gauss.
Rocket Lab has experience building spacecraft components including reaction wheels and star trackers.
Rocket Lab designed the Gauss thruster to support its own spacecraft programs and address industry demand for in-orbit maneuvering.
"Kakushin Rising" is Rocket Lab's second dedicated mission for JAXA.
Rocket Lab will launch "Kakushin Rising" from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand using the Electron small launch vehicle.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft and component business has grown enough that CFO Adam Spice no longer considers Rocket Lab a launch company.
Rocket Lab closed its acquisition of Mynaric this week.
Rocket Lab now has vertically integrated access to optical terminals through its acquisition of Mynaric.
A Rocket Lab Electron mission called Finding Hot Wildfires Near You deployed eight OroraTech satellites in a single launch.