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 used the New Zealand pad for Electron more than 60 times.
Rocket Lab is a primary candidate to manufacture satellite bus hardware for the planned 2,800-satellite Equatys constellation.
Deployments for Rocket Lab’s 18 space vehicles for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta program are scheduled to begin in mid-2027.
SolAero Technologies was acquired by Rocket Lab in January 2022.
Rocket Lab completed 20 launches and acquired Iridium for 8 billion dollars.
The space equity basket includes Rocket Lab USA, Planet Labs, Spire Global, Satellogic, and BlackSky Technology.
Rocket Lab USA trades under the ticker RKLB.
Rocket Lab launched the Puma target spacecraft on an Electron rocket from its New Zealand spaceport 16 hours and 42 minutes after receiving the alert order.
The Space Force issued a snap launch notice to Rocket Lab on June 19, 2026.
The Raytheon-Rocket Lab teaming arrangement for the SBI awards makes Rocket Lab’s component manufacturing and spacecraft bus capability a Tier 1 input into a major prime’s SBI prototype under the OTA framework.
SSC will task True Anomaly and Rocket Lab with additional missions over the coming weeks and months.
True Anomaly found Rocket Lab’s Puma spacecraft in orbit within hours of Rocket Lab’s launch.
The VICTUS HAZE mission restricted direct communication between True Anomaly and Rocket Lab to a trusted communications path.
Rocket Lab Corporation completed its Mynaric acquisition in May 2026.
True Anomaly completed the first VICTUS HAZE mission by finding, approaching, and imaging a Rocket Lab spacecraft.
Rocket Lab launched less than 17 hours after receiving notice from SSC.
Rocket Lab will gain an immediate position in the space applications market through the acquisition of Iridium Communications.
The boards of directors of Iridium and Rocket Lab approved the transaction unanimously.
Rocket Lab expects to gain hundreds of millions of dollars in additional free cash flow after acquiring Iridium Communications.
Rocket Lab expects that adding Iridium Communications will more than double its revenue.