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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QPS-SAR-5 will launch on a dedicated Electron mission from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Rocket Lab USA signed a double-launch deal with NASA to deliver the PREFIRE mission to low Earth orbit in 2024.
The upcoming PREFIRE launches will be the seventh and eighth missions Rocket Lab has launched for NASA since 2018.
The two dedicated Electron missions will each deploy one small satellite to a 525 km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand beginning in May 2024.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon using its Electron launch vehicle and Lunar Photon satellite bus.
PREFIRE was awarded to Rocket Lab through NASA’s Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) program, a $300,000,000 five-year contracting vehicle for placing NASA science and technology payloads on U.S. commercial launchers.
Rocket Lab conducted back-to-back Electron launches in May 2023 to deploy the TROPICS satellites for NASA’s hurricane monitoring mission.
On 2023-08-14, NASA awarded a task order through its Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract to Rocket Lab for the launch of two 6U cubesats for the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) mission.
Rocket Lab set a target selling price for the Electron of $7,500,000 in an 2023-08-08 earnings call.
The upcoming PREFIRE launches will be the seventh and eighth missions Rocket Lab has launched for NASA since 2018.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) signed a double-launch contract with NASA to deliver the PREFIRE mission to low Earth orbit in 2024.
Rocket Lab previously launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission using its Electron launch vehicle and Lunar Photon satellite bus.
NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch a pair of cubesats in 2024 to monitor energy entering and exiting the polar regions of the planet.
Rocket Lab stated that the two PREFIRE satellites will be launched individually on Electron rockets from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in May 2024.
The two PREFIRE satellites will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in May 2024.
Rocket Lab will deploy NASA’s PREFIRE mission across two dedicated Electron launches in 2024.
The two 2024 PREFIRE launches will be the seventh and eighth missions Rocket Lab has launched for NASA since 2018.
The NASA Starling mission launched on Rocket Lab’s most recent Electron recovery launch prior to 2023-08-14.
Rocket Lab launched two TROPICS satellites for NASA on back-to-back Electron missions in May 2023.
Rocket Lab provided launch services for the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon using its Electron launch vehicle and Lunar Photon satellite bus.