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 the VICTUS HAZE spacecraft on Electron from either Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand or Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia.
Rocket Lab deployed NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System to a higher circular orbit at 1,0 m.
Rocket Lab’s 47th Electron mission deployed two satellites to two different orbits approximately 500 km apart.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. was selected for a $32,000,000 U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command contract to deliver the VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space mission.
Rocket Lab launched a South Korean smallsat and a NASA solar sail experiment on its fifth flight of the year on 2024-04-23.
Rocket Lab launched the Space Test Program’s Monolith satellite on Electron in 2021.
Rocket Lab received a $515,000,000 contract from the Space Development Agency to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta data transport satellites.
Rocket Lab deployed two satellites to two different orbits approximately 500 km apart on its 47th Electron mission.
Rocket Lab has a $14,490,000 contract to launch the Space Systems Command’s STP-30 mission on Electron within 24 months.
The VICTUS HAZE contract was awarded to Rocket Lab National Security, a wholly owned Rocket Lab subsidiary that serves the United States and its allies with responsive and reliable launch services, spacecraft manufacturing, and space systems capabilities.
The launch was the fifth flight 2024 for the Electron and the first in more than a month after a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2024-03-21 from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 2 in Virginia.
Rocket Lab scheduled the 'Beginning Of The Swarm' launch within a 14-day launch window that opened no-earlier-than 2024-04-24.
Rocket Lab deployed two satellites to two different orbits approximately 500 km apart on its 47th Electron mission.
Beginning Of The Swarm is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab will attempt the Beginning Of The Swarm mission during a 14-day launch window that opens on 2024-04-24.
Beginning Of The Swarm is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) set a 14-day launch window for its Electron mission Beginning Of The Swarm that opens on 2024-04-24.
Rocket Lab plans to develop a new satellite bus for the Space Development Agency.
Rocket Lab’s Electron suffered a stage separation anomaly on 2023-09-19 that prevented the Capella Space payload from reaching orbit.
Rocket Lab returned the Electron to flight on 2023-12-14 and successfully launched a radar imaging satellite for the Japanese company iQPS.