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 is Capella Space’s sole launch provider in 2023 to build out Capella Space’s Earth-imaging constellation.
Rocket Lab supplied the 'We Love The Nightlife' launch that successfully deployed Capella’s first Acadia satellite to space on 2023-08-24.
The 'We Will Never Desert You' mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab’s earlier 'Stronger Together' mission delivered two satellites for Capella Space from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia in March 2023.
MDA is using Rocket Lab to supply chassis for the spacecraft ordered by Globalstar.
MDA is using Rocket Lab to supply chassis for the spacecraft ordered by Globalstar.
Rocket Lab launched its 40th Electron mission on 2023-08-24.
Rocket Lab previously launched two missions for Capella: 'Stronger Together' in March 2023 from Launch Complex 2 in Virginia and 'I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical' in August 2020 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab previously launched the 'I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical' mission for Capella in August 2020 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, which deployed the first satellite in Capella’s SAR constellation.
Rocket Lab previously launched the 'Stronger Together' mission for Capella in March 2023 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Virginia.
The 'We Love the Nightlife' mission was scheduled to lift off on 23 August 2023 at 11:45 am NZST (23:45 UTC) from Rocket Lab’s private orbital launch site in New Zealand.
The 2023-08-23 mission was Rocket Lab’s eighth Electron mission of 2023, including one launch of the suborbital HASTE vehicle.
The 'We Love The Nightlife' mission followed Rocket Lab’s 'Stronger Together' mission for Capella, which launched in March 2023 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Virginia.
Rocket Lab replaced the originally planned booster with a newly completed booster that had been designed for recovery.
The 'Stronger Together' mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Virginia in March 2023.
The 2023-08-23 launch was the first of four Electron missions carrying Acadia satellites under a contract between Rocket Lab and Capella Space from 2023-02-01.
Rocket Lab secured a five-launch deal with BlackSky to carry its new Gen-3 satellites starting next year.
The iQPS satellite QPS-SAR-5 will launch on Rocket Lab's Electron instead of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne due to delays and the bankruptcy of Virgin Orbit.
Rocket Lab's next Electron launch will be the 40th flight of that vehicle.
Rocket Lab has conducted seven Electron launches so far in 2023, out of 15 planned for the year.