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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The Maryland Department of Commerce is providing a $1,560,000 repayable loan to Rocket Lab through the Advantage Maryland program to assist with project costs.
Rocket Lab’s Space Structures Complex will support development and manufacture of carbon composite spacecraft buses, structural panels and assemblies, satellite dispensers, aerostructures, heat shields, composite overwrap pressure vessels, solar panel substrates, and launch vehicle structures.
The Maryland Department of Commerce is providing Rocket Lab a $1,560,000 repayable loan through the Advantage Maryland program to assist with project costs.
Rocket Lab is expanding its space systems business with a dedicated production and development complex to deliver a suite of advanced composite products for the space industry and vertically integrate supply for its launch and space systems needs.
Rocket Lab is establishing a Space Structures Complex in Middle River, Maryland to support development and manufacture of carbon composite spacecraft buses, structural panels and assemblies, satellite dispensers, aerostructures and heat shields, composite overwrap pressure vessels, solar panel substrates, and launch vehicle structures.
Rocket Lab currently manufactures and launches its in-house designed carbon composite Maxwell satellite dispensers.
Rocket Lab’s Photon Lunar spacecraft delivered the CAPSTONE satellite to lunar orbit for NASA in 2022.
Rocket Lab currently manufactures and launches in-house designed carbon composite Maxwell satellite dispensers.
Rocket Lab’s Photon Lunar spacecraft delivered the CAPSTONE satellite to lunar orbit for NASA in 2022.
The Middle River Space Structures Complex will expand Rocket Lab’s operations in proximity to the company’s assembly, integration, and test complex in Virginia at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and NASA Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket Lab set a return-to-launch window for its Electron launch vehicle that opens on 2023-11-28 and extends into 2023-12-01 for a dedicated mission for Japan-based Earth imaging company iQPS (Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space).
Prior to the 2023-09-19 anomaly, Rocket Lab had achieved 20 consecutive successful orbital missions and 37 successful Electron missions overall deploying 171 satellites to orbit for government and commercial operators.
Rocket Lab expects revenues and gross margins to improve in 2024 as Electron launches increase and as it begins to deliver Globalstar satellites under a contract with MDA.
The mission will launch from Rocket Lab’s dedicated launch site at the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island as early as 2025-01-01.
Rocket Lab expects to resume Electron launches no earlier than 2023-11-28 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
The mission will be operated by Rocket Lab National Security (RLNS), Rocket Lab’s wholly owned subsidiary created to serve the U.S. defense and intelligence community and its allies.
Rocket Lab’s first HASTE mission launched on 17 June 2023 for Leidos under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program.
Rocket Lab reported $67,700,000 in revenue in the quarter and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $15,500,000.
StriX-α launched on 2020-12-15 at 19:09 from the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket.
In 2022 Rocket Lab established a new business sector called Rocket Lab National Security to work with U.S. government agencies and allies.