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 will launch an Electron rocket on Saturday, 2024-10-19, at 3:30 AM PDT from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate for the first half of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023.
Rocket Lab achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate for the first half of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, doubling its rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
Rocket Lab and other emerging companies are expected to participate in upcoming competitive bids for NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 with opportunities for on-ramping planned later 2024.
Rocket Lab has achieved a 100% increase in its Electron launch rate for the first half of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023, doubling its rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
Electron has delivered more than 190 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations since Rocket Lab’s first orbital launch in January 2018.
Rocket Lab Founder and CEO Sir Peter Beck supports using Electron as a dedicated and responsive launch service that allows customers to launch to specific locations and times on short notice.
Rocket Lab operates three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site in New Zealand and a third launch pad in Virginia.
The mission will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1.
Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle became the second most frequently launched U.S. orbital rocket annually since its first orbital launch in January 2018.
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 rocket production and launch cadence within a year.
The 'Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes' mission has a launch window that opens 2024-10-19 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected by NASA to complete a study for retrieving rock samples from the Martian surface and bringing them to Earth.
Rocket Lab’s study will explore a simplified, end-to-end mission concept intended to be delivered for a fraction of the current projected program cost and completed several years earlier than the current expected sample return date in 2040.
On 2024-10-07 in Long Beach, California, NASA selected Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) to complete a study for retrieving rock samples from the Martian surface and returning them to Earth.
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket has conducted ten launches so far in 2023.
The 'Kinéis Killed the RadIOT Star' mission will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and the first private commercial mission to Venus.
The 'Kinéis Killed the RadIOT Star' mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a 14-day launch window that opens on 2024-09-17 NZST.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has set a 14-day launch window opening on 2024-09-17 NZST for its 53rd Electron launch.