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 into a target orbit on the company’s Electron rocket after receiving notice to launch.
On 2024-04-11, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly secured contracts to launch a tactically responsive space mission for the U.S. Space Force.
Rocket Lab has a $515,000,000 contract from the Space Development Agency to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport (T2TL-Beta) satellites.
Rocket Lab will design, build, launch, and operate a rendezvous and proximity operations-capable spacecraft for the Victus Haze mission with a delivery target date in 2025.
Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle had its first orbital launch in January 2018 and has delivered more than 180 satellites to orbit.
Rocket Lab was awarded a $32,000,000 contract by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to deliver the VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission.
Rocket Lab has a $24,350,000 contract with Space Systems Command to support development of Neutron's upper stage.
Rocket Lab USA was awarded a $14,490,000 task order by the U.S. Space Force to launch an Electron mission from Launch Complex 2.
Rocket Lab delivered the Air Force Research Laboratory–sponsored demonstration satellite Monolith on an Electron launch in 2021.
Rocket Lab successfully launched the STP-27RD mission of research and development satellites for the Department of Defense in 2019.
Rocket Lab was awarded a $14,490,000 task order by the U.S. Space Force to launch an Electron mission from Launch Complex 2.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and to Mars and to support the first private commercial mission to Venus.
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 is working with Space Systems Command under a $24,350,000 contract to support development of Neutron’s upper stage.
Rocket Lab was selected to launch STP-S30 under the Orbital Service Program OSP-4 contract vehicle run by Space Systems Command.
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 launched the STP-27RD mission of research and development satellites for the Department of Defense in 2019.
Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small orbital launch vehicle and the Photon satellite platform and is developing the Neutron large launch vehicle for constellation deployment.
Rocket Lab has a $24,350,000 contract with Space Systems Command to support development of Neutron’s upper stage.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. was awarded a $14,490,000 task order from the U.S. Space Force to launch an Electron mission from Launch Complex 2.