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 launches its Electron small launch vehicle from sites in New Zealand and Virginia.
The Venus Life Finder mission was at one time projected to launch in May 2023 but was delayed while Rocket Lab worked on other priorities.
Rocket Lab is receiving a thermal protection system for the Venus probe from NASA’s Ames Research Center with delivery expected by the end of the year.
Rocket Lab set a launch date of as soon as 2024-12-30, for the Rocket Lab Mission to Venus with a launch period that extends into 2025 and no finalized launch date.
Adam Space, Rocket Lab’s chief financial officer, in an 2023-10-04 interview indicated the investigation was in its early days and that the company expected a return to flight similar to failures in 2020-07-01 and 2021-05-01.
Rocket Lab is completing a meticulous review into the root cause of the 2023-09-19 failure that the company expects will be done in the coming weeks and allow Electron launches to resume before the end of the year.
The 'We Will Never Desert You' mission launched 2023-09-19 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand as Rocket Lab’s 41st Electron launch.
Rocket Lab received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration on 2023-10-25 to resume launches under its existing launch license from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab revised downward its revenue guidance for the third quarter on 2023-09-26 to reflect a launch that was planned for the third quarter but is now delayed by the 2023-09-19 failure.
Rocket Lab’s announcement stated the rocket’s first stage performed as expected and did not contribute to the 2023-09-19 anomaly.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft will perform the Mars transfer from Earth orbit, execute an approximately 11-month cruise to Mars, and perform Mars orbit insertion.
The University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory leads ESCAPADE with spacecraft provided by Rocket Lab.
Rocket Lab’s Long Beach facility includes a 12,000-square-foot cleanroom and 40,000 square feet of production and test facilities.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft will perform the Mars transfer from Earth orbit, undertake an 11-month cruise to Mars, and execute Mars orbit insertion.
Rocket Lab’s Long Beach facility includes a 12,000-square-foot cleanroom and 40,000 square feet of production and test facilities.
Telemetry displayed on the Rocket Lab launch webcast during the 2023-09-19 mission showed the rocket’s speed decreasing after stage separation, suggesting the upper stage engine was not working.
Rocket Lab is developing a larger Neutron rocket and targeted a first Neutron launch in late 2024.
Rocket Lab’s 41st Electron mission, named “We Will Never Desert You,” failed to reach orbit during a 2023-09-19 launch attempt.
Japanese radar imaging company iQPS switched its launch plans to Rocket Lab earlier in 2023 after Virgin Orbit’s failure.
NorthStar Earth & Space switched its planned launches to Rocket Lab after Virgin Orbit’s failure and expected its satellites to launch on Electron before the end of 2023.