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 planned to fly up to 15 Electron rockets in 2023 compared to nine Electrons flown in 2022.
Rocket Lab reported $117,000,000 in revenue for the first half of 2023 and expects to make around $67,000,000 in revenue in the third quarter of 2023.
Rocket Lab lowered its third-quarter 2023 revenue expectations by $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 on 2023-09-26, a week after a launch failure forced it to delay at least one future mission.
Rocket Lab’s earlier 2023 revenue forecast was $267 million, creating an $83,000,000 shortfall relative to its year-to-date and third-quarter expectations.
Rocket Lab previously estimated the value of the Long Beach facility and its contents at about $100,000,000.
Rocket Lab is investigating the 2023-09-19 Electron launch failure and has not provided a timetable for returning Electron to flight.
Rocket Lab acquired the lease on the Long Beach building along with the machinery and equipment inside for $16,100,000 in a bankruptcy auction in May.
Astroscale Japan shipped the commercial debris inspection demonstration satellite ADRAS-J from its satellite manufacturing facility in Tokyo, Japan to Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab took over the lease and acquired the former Virgin Orbit factory’s production assets, machinery, and equipment in May 2023 for $16,100,000.
Rutherford engines are launched from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 2 in Virginia after integration onto Electron.
Completed Archimedes engines will undergo testing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi at the A-3 Test Stand where Rocket Lab is establishing a dedicated test facility.
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson thanked Rocket Lab for taking over the former Virgin Orbit facility and working with the city on job fairs for former Virgin Orbit employees.
Rocket Lab opened an Engine Development Center in Long Beach, California and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 2023-10-04.
The Rocket Lab Engine Development Center occupies a 13,400-square-meter facility in Long Beach.
Astroscale Japan Inc. shipped its commercial debris inspection demonstration satellite ADRAS-J from its satellite manufacturing facility in Tokyo, Japan to Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand on 2023-10-04.
The suspension of Rocket Lab launches following the 2023-09-19 Electron failure is keeping ADRAS-J on the ground pending Rocket Lab’s return to flight.
A previous Electron launch on 2023-08-23 launched the first Acadia satellite as part of a four-launch contract between Rocket Lab and Capella Space.
Rocket Lab's Electron failed during a launch carrying a Capella Space radar imaging satellite on 2023-09-19.
Capella Space’s factory contains multiple Acadia satellites with more planned to launch in the coming quarters, including on Rocket Lab vehicles.
Rocket Lab was selected by Leidos to provide hypersonic test launch capabilities with HASTE under the MACH-TB project.