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Rocket Lab’s Electron performed its first orbital launch in January 2018.
Rocket Lab expects it will likely fall short of 22 Electron launches in 2024 because customers are delaying delivery of spacecraft.
Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and a private commercial mission to Venus.
Since its first orbital launch, Rocket Lab’s Electron has delivered more than 180 satellites to orbit.
NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch the PREFIRE spacecraft in August 2023 through a task order on the Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract.
NASA will launch the first of two PREFIRE cubesats no earlier than 2024-05-22 on an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab’s 18 satellites are part of the Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta Program, which features multiple space vehicle and mission configuration variants to provide global communications access and persistent regional encrypted connectivity in support of warfighter missions.
Rocket Lab selected CesiumAstro to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array radio frequency communications payload for integration on 18 space vehicles supporting the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has a contract from Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: RKLB) to provide antennas and RF hardware for the Space Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta variant satellites.
Rocket Lab expects Neutron’s first launch to take place no earlier than mid-2025.
Rocket Lab anticipates spending $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 on development of the Neutron launch vehicle.
Rocket Lab recorded a net loss of $44,300,000 in the first quarter of 2024, compared with a net loss of $45,600,000 in the first quarter of 2023.
Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small orbital launch vehicle and the Photon satellite platform and is developing the large Neutron launch vehicle for constellation deployment.
Rocket Lab expects it is unlikely to complete all 22 projected Electron launches in 2024 because of customer schedule delays.
Rocket Lab is constructing Launch Complex 3 at Wallops Island, Virginia for Neutron operations.
Rocket Lab completed carbon composite flight structures for Neutron’s fairing panels, Stage 1 and Stage 2 tanks, and the reusable Stage 1 structure.
Rocket Lab completed the first Archimedes engine and installed it on a test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on 2024-05-06.
CesiumAstro was selected by Rocket Lab to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array radio frequency communications payload for integration on 18 space vehicles supporting the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
Rocket Lab reported $92,800,000 in revenue in the first quarter of 2024, a 69% increase over the first quarter of 2023.
Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has delivered more than 180 satellites to orbit.