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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The U.S. Space Force selected Rocket Lab to build and launch Victus Haze, a 2025 in-space surveillance mission that will demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations with a True Anomaly satellite.
Rocket Lab is producing Neutron engines at a former Virgin Orbit facility in Long Beach, California that Rocket Lab acquired after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy.
Rocket Lab’s Electron small-satellite launch vehicle has flown to orbit 53 times since its 2017 debut, with 49 successes and four failures from launch sites in New Zealand and Virginia.
Rocket Lab received $24,000,000 from the U.S. Space Force to support work on Neutron’s second stage.
Rocket Lab expects Neutron development costs to range between $250,000,000 and $300,000,000.
A launch window for 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' opens on 2024-10-19 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1.
Rocket Lab achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate in the first half of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, doubling its rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
The expedited 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' mission achieved Rocket Lab’s fastest turnaround to date from signed contract to launch in less than two months.
Rocket Lab achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate in the first half of 2024 compared with the same time in 2023, doubling its rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
Rocket Lab was set to launch 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' on Saturday, 2024-10-19 at 3:30 AM PDT from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab added a last-minute Electron launch to its 2024 manifest for a commercial mission with a launch window opening 2024-10-19.
Rocket Lab will launch a mission named 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' on Monday, 2024-11-04 at 2:30 AM PST from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab added the 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes' mission as a last-minute Electron launch to its 2024 launch manifest with a launch window opening 2024-10-19.
Rocket Lab will launch the mission 'Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes' from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on Monday, 2024-11-04 at 2:30 AM PST.
Rocket Lab achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate in the first half of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, doubling its rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B has hosted 22 rockets and 22 orbital launch attempts.
Rocket Lab operates responsive launch sites and an experienced team behind the second most frequently launched U.S. orbital rocket.
Telesat is conducting demonstrations for potential Lightspeed government and enterprise customers with a prototype called LEO 3 that Rocket Lab launched last year.
Eight of the 12 Mars Sample Return studies were from industry, seven of which were awarded in June and an eighth to Rocket Lab was made in August and publicly revealed on 2024-10-07.
Rocket Lab achieved annual revenue growth of about 60–70 percent, according to Promus Ventures' investment performance.