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’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and the first private commercial mission to Venus.
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored demonstration satellite called Monolith in 2021.
Since its first orbital launch, Rocket Lab’s Electron has delivered more than 180 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Rocket Lab a $14,400,000 contract to launch a Space Test Program experiment that will fly in very low Earth orbit.
Rocket Lab launched the first four of NorthStar’s initial Spire-built satellites at the end of January, each the size of a 16-unit (16U) cubesat.
Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle achieved its first orbital launch in January 2018.
Varda’s next mission is scheduled to launch this summer using Varda’s capsule and a spacecraft bus built by Rocket Lab.
Telesat’s LEO 3 was launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has set a 14-day launch window for the Electron 'Beginning Of The Swarm' mission that opens on 2024-04-24.
Rocket Lab set a 14-day launch window for the Electron mission 'Beginning Of The Swarm' that opens on 2024-04-24.
Rocket Lab scheduled the 'Beginning Of The Swarm' mission to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand during a 14-day launch window that opens 2024-04-24.
Rocket Lab launched the NROL-123 mission called 'Live and Let Fly' on an Electron launch vehicle from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia at 03:25 EDT on 2024-03-21.
The NROL-123 launch was Rocket Lab’s first launch for the NRO from the United States after previously launching four NRO missions from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
The 2024-03-21 launch was the fifth and last mission under a Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract between the NRO and Rocket Lab that dates back to 2020.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) launched the NROL-123 mission from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia on 2024-03-21 at 03:25 EDT.
Rocket Lab opened Launch Complex 2 in early 2023 as its first U.S. launch site.
Rocket Lab is working to have the first Neutron ready for launch from Launch Complex 3 as soon as the end of 2024.
Rocket Lab launched a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Virginia on 2024-03-21.
Rocket Lab is building Launch Complex 3 adjacent to LC-2 to support its Neutron rocket.
Rocket Lab launched an Electron carrying a radar imaging satellite for Japanese company Synspective on 2024-03-12 from New Zealand.