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 signed a double-launch deal with NASA to deliver the PREFIRE mission to low Earth orbit in 2024.
Rocket Lab launched the latest Lightspeed prototype on 2023-07-17.
Rocket Lab signed the new HASTE contract days after its first HASTE launch on 17 June 2023.
BlackSky purchased five additional Electron launches for missions starting in 2024 to carry its Gen-3 imaging satellites.
On 2023-08-08 Rocket Lab signed a block buy deal for five Electron launches with BlackSky.
Rocket Lab’s second-quarter revenue included $22,500,000 from three Electron launches in the quarter.
Rocket Lab successfully launched the first HASTE mission on 17 June 2023 for Leidos under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program.
Rocket Lab has launched six Electron missions for BlackSky since 2019.
Rocket Lab signed a launch services agreement with a confidential customer for a HASTE mission from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in 2024.
Rocket Lab forecasts completing 15 Electron launches 2023, including both orbital missions and HASTE flights.
BlackSky signed a launch agreement with Rocket Lab for a block of five dedicated launches to secure launch capacity including deployment of initial Gen-3 satellites in 2024.
HASTE is operated under Rocket Lab National Security (RLNS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rocket Lab created to serve the U.S. defense and intelligence community and its allies.
Rocket Lab successfully launched the inaugural HASTE mission on 17 June 2023.
Rocket Lab USA signed a launch services agreement with a confidential customer for a HASTE mission from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in 2024.
The first HASTE mission launched by Rocket Lab occurred on 17 June 2023 for Leidos under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program.
Rocket Lab signed a launch services agreement with a confidential customer for a HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) mission from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in 2024.
The five BlackSky Electron launches will take place from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
BlackSky Technology signed an agreement with Rocket Lab USA to purchase a block of five launches.
Rocket Lab reported second-quarter revenue of $62,000,000 and a net loss of $45,900,000.
Rocket Lab has launched six Electron missions for BlackSky since 2019.