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 conducted two back-to-back Electron launches for the TROPICS mission in May 2023.
Rocket Lab deployed the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon using Electron and a Rocket Lab Explorer spacecraft bus.
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.
Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small orbital launch vehicle and the Photon satellite platform and is developing the Neutron launch vehicle for constellation deployment.
Each of the two dedicated Rocket Lab missions will deploy one satellite to a 525 km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Kongsberg NanoAvionics built a 12U nanosatellite bus for the in-orbit demonstration of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System mission that was successfully launched by Rocket Lab.
The nanosatellite was launched on Rocket Lab’s Electron 47 Light from a launch site in Māhia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab is preparing two back-to-back Electron launches to deploy NASA’s PREFIRE mission.
Rocket Lab USA, True Anomaly, Space Exploration Engineering, and Eta Space will assist Gravitics in refining mission architecture, developing use-case-specific outfitting, and developing flight hardware under the contract.
Rocket Lab launched NASA’s ACS3 mission on a rideshare mission in March 2024.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing two back-to-back Electron launches to deploy NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission.
The first Rocket Lab mission for PREFIRE is named Ready, Aim, PREFIRE and is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2024-05-22.
Rocket Lab conducted two back-to-back Electron launches for the TROPICS mission in May 2023.
Each of the two dedicated Rocket Lab missions will deploy one satellite to a 525 km circular orbit 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 to support the first private commercial mission to Venus.
Rocket Lab and True Anomaly won Space Force contracts on 2024-04-11 to develop the Victus Haze tactically responsive space mission.
The Jackal and another vehicle to be developed by Rocket Lab under a separate contract will be tasked to perform maneuvers in close proximity.
Rocket Lab USA, True Anomaly, Space Exploration Engineering, and Eta Space will assist Gravitics in refining mission architecture, developing use-case-specific outfitting, and developing flight hardware under the contract.
Electron continued to be the United States’ second-most frequently launched rocket annually based on Rocket Lab’s 2024 launch cadence.
Rocket Lab deployed a primary payload, NEONSAT-1 by KAIST, to a 520 km circular Earth orbit.