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 launched 14 missions in 2024.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has scheduled the 'Owl The Way Up' Electron mission to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a launch window that opens on 2024-12-18 NZDT (2024-12-17 UTC).
Rocket Lab first launched for Synspective in December 2020.
Exolaunch integrated and deployed 83 satellites into orbit across Bandwagon-1, Transporter-10, and Transporter-11 rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2024 and two dedicated missions with Rocket Lab and ESA’s Ariane 6 maiden flight.
Rocket Lab signed a preliminary terms sheet for funding under the CHIPS and Science Act earlier in 2024.
With the two 2024-11-24 launches, Rocket Lab has conducted 14 Electron launches so far 2024.
Rocket Lab’s total count of satellites deployed reached 203 after the 'Ice AIS Baby' mission.
Rocket Lab’s Albuquerque solar cell facility has operated as a technology hub for 25 years and employs more than 370 people.
Rocket Lab’s solar cell workforce has delivered more than four megawatts of power to over 1,100 satellites in orbit.
Rocket Lab originally projected as many as 22 Electron launches for the year but is maintaining revised guidance of 15 to 18 Electron launches for the year.
Rocket Lab launched its 56th Electron mission deploying five satellites to Low Earth Orbit for French Internet-of-Things operator Kinéis.
Rocket Lab completed the 'Ice AIS Baby' launch 21 hours and 55 minutes after a successful mission from Launch Complex 2 in Virginia, setting a new company record for fastest turnaround between launches.
Rocket Lab launched a pair of Electron rockets within 24 hours on 2024-11-24.
On 2024-11-25, Rocket Lab finalized a $23,900,000 award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to increase its compound semiconductor manufacturing capability and capacity at its Albuquerque, New Mexico facility.
The 2024-11-24 launch was performed by HASTE, a vehicle derived from the two-stage orbital-class expendable Electron, from Pad 0C (Rocket Lab LC-2) within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
Lift-off for the “Ice AIS Baby” mission took place from Rocket Lab’s private orbital launch site, Launch Complex 1, in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab was selected by Leidos to provide hypersonic test launch capabilities with HASTE under the MACH-TB project.
Rocket Lab positions HASTE as leveraging the heritage of its low-cost Electron — described in the source as the world’s most frequently launched commercial small launch vehicle — to offer commercial testing capability at a fraction of the cost of current full-scale tests.
Rocket Lab launched the first HASTE mission on 17 June 2023 for Leidos under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program.
Rocket Lab will launch four HASTE missions for Leidos in 2024 and 2025.