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 performed seven Electron launches so far 2023, including a June launch of a suborbital variant called Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE).
The 2023-06-17 HASTE mission was Rocket Lab’s third mission from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport since the company began launches from U.S. soil in 2023-01-01.
Rocket Lab has reported an average Electron launch price of $7,500,000.
Rocket Lab has launched six Electron missions for BlackSky since 2019.
Rocket Lab expected to conduct four launches in the quarter, including a rideshare mission for NASA, Spire, and Telesat that took place on 2023-07-17.
Rocket Lab has launched six successful Electron missions for BlackSky since 2019.
The five launches for BlackSky are expected to take place beginning in 2024 from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
BlackSky Technology Inc. and Rocket Lab USA, Inc. signed an agreement for BlackSky to buy a block of five launches.
NASA awarded a contract to Rocket Lab to launch the remaining four TROPICS satellites after the Astra Rocket 3.3 failure.
Under a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency contract, Astroscale plans to use a spacecraft launching on a Rocket Lab Electron later in the year to inspect a discarded upper stage of a Japanese H2-A rocket as part of ADRAS-J.
Rocket Lab builds the rockets it launches and is effectively the primary customer for the parts the broader group needs to run its main business.
Varda is developing a second spacecraft to be manufactured by Rocket Lab using the Photon bus.
Rocket Lab will conduct four new dedicated Electron launches for Capella Space announced in February 2023 to deploy Capella’s Acadia satellites.
Rocket Lab previously launched Capella Space missions "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.
The "We Love the Nightlife" mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab issued a Long Beach, California announcement on 20 July 2023 scheduling an Electron launch window that opens 28 July 2023 NZST/UTC.
All four upcoming Electron missions for Capella will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, each deploying a single Acadia satellite to a 640 km mid-inclination orbit.
Each Capella Space satellite launched on Electron will use a Rocket Lab-manufactured Advanced Lightband separation system to attach to and deploy from Electron.
All four upcoming Electron missions will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 with each mission deploying a single Acadia satellite.
Each Capella Space satellite will be supported by a Rocket Lab-manufactured Advanced Lightband separation system to attach to and deploy from Electron.