The two companies will join three others selected last summer, including SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin.

It attacked the market by focusing on small payloads with its Electron rocket, a niche that SpaceX does not serve. In 2024, the Electron rocket launched 16 times with a 100% mission success rate.

Rocket Lab has launched its workhorse Electron rocket for the third time in two weeks. The New Zealand-based company ...

The Finding Hot Wildfires Near You mission lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Pad B, in Mahia, New Zealand, on Wednesday local time. Using its workhorse Electron rocket, the mission ...

Lift-off of Rocket Lab's 61st Electron rocket for a mission for iQPS. MAHIA, New Zealand, March 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a ...

Meanwhile, day-by-day, week-by-week, it successfully launches its Electron rockets. It is well advanced on developing its Neutron fully-reusable rocket. It is in the process of buying German laser ...

Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis' "Internet of Things" constellation tonight (March 17). An Electron vehicle carrying five of Kinéis' "Internet of ...

The mission follows Rocket Lab’s first launch for the company in December 2023, when Electron deployed another QPS-SAR satellite as part of iQPS’ newly established radar imaging constellation.