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 is supplying a separation system produced by Rocket Lab for the Acadia-3 deployment.
Andy Bunker is the vice president of government operations and business strategy at Rocket Lab.
Electron has delivered 190 satellites to orbit for customers across commercial, civil, defense, and academic sectors since Rocket Lab’s first launch in 2017.
Synspective signed a contract with Rocket Lab for 10 Electron launches from 2025 through 2027.
Rocket Lab will perform five launches for Kinéis under a contract announced in September 2021.
Each Rocket Lab launch for Kinéis will place five satellites weighing 28 kg each into orbit to build a constellation to provide IoT services.
Rocket Lab launched the first set of Kinéis satellites on 20 June 2024 on the 50th flight of its Electron rocket.
Kinéis plans a second Rocket Lab launch later in 2024.
Rocket Lab had projected performing 22 Electron launches in 2024, including two HASTE missions, but reduced those projections in a May 2024 earnings call citing customer delays.
Rocket Lab deployed the first satellite in Synspective’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation in 2020.
Rocket Lab has launched satellites supporting NASA missions to the Moon.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. signed a ten-launch Electron agreement with Japanese Earth observation company Synspective.
Rocket Lab’s deployed satellites have included NASA missions to the Moon, National Reconnaissance Office missions, and Space Force missions supporting national security and defense.
Rocket Lab launched its 50th Electron rocket seven years after the vehicle’s debut in May 2017.
The signing event for the Rocket Lab–Synspective launch agreement took place in Tokyo on 2024-06-18.
Rocket Lab successfully launched the 50th Electron mission on 21 June 2024.
Rocket Lab operates Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand as a site for Synspective launches.
Rocket Lab is developing a larger reusable launch vehicle called Neutron with plans to bring it to market by mid-2025.
Rocket Lab subcontracted CesiumAstro to provide antennas as part of a $515,000,000 contract with the Space Development Agency for 18 military satellites slated to launch in mid-2027.
Rocket Lab’s most recent launch of a Synspective SAR satellite occurred in March and was part of a multi-launch contract that includes two more launches later 2024 separate from the new 10-launch contract.