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 proposed a vertically integrated end-to-end system to pick up Mars samples and return them for less than $4 billion.
Other U.S. entities performed 20 orbital launches in 2024, including 13 Electron launches from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
China ranked second in worldwide launches in 2024 behind the United States, with the U.S. conducting over 150 launches including Rocket Lab launches from New Zealand.
Synspective signed a contract with Rocket Lab in June for 10 additional Electron launches from 2025 through 2027.
Rocket Lab’s 16 launches in the year included 14 orbital Electron launches and two suborbital HASTE launches conducted on 2024-11-24 and 2024-12-13 from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab first launched a mission for Synspective in December 2020.
The Owl The Way Up mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand during a launch window that opens on 2024-12-21.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) delivered its second Pioneer spacecraft to Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2024-12-17.
The two Pioneer spacecraft delivered and completed are part of a four-vehicle contract between Rocket Lab and Varda Space Industries.
Rocket Lab designed, built, and tested the Pioneer spacecraft for Varda at its Spacecraft Production Complex in Long Beach, California.
Rocket Lab’s first Pioneer spacecraft developed for Varda launched in 2023 and spent eight months on orbit.
Rocket Lab first launched a mission for Synspective in December 2020.
Rocket Lab launched 14 missions in 2024, exceeding the company’s previous annual record of 10 missions set in 2023.
Rocket Lab has been launching missions to space for commercial and government customers since 2017.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. successfully launched a suborbital mission in November 2024 to test hypersonic technology for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. successfully launched a suborbital mission in November to test hypersonic technology for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Rocket Lab has deployed more than 200 payloads from its United States and New Zealand launch sites.
Rocket Lab has been launching missions for commercial and government customers since 2017 and has deployed more than 200 payloads from its United States and New Zealand launch sites.
Rocket Lab designed, manufactured, assembled, and integrated the experimental hypersonic instrumentation that was launched on the November mission on a highly accelerated timeline.
Rocket Lab designed, manufactured, assembled, and integrated the experimental hypersonic instrumentation that was launched on the November 2024 mission on a highly accelerated timeline.