The new Neutron rocket includes a "hippo" mouth fairing that deploys upper stages by spitting them out from inside.

Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket will launch in 2025, using a sea-based platform for recovery and expanding mission capabilities.

Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket is a really big deal. How big? Sit back and let Rocket Lab's leaders tell you all about it.

Image source: Rocket Lab. Hotly anticipated ever since it was first announced four years ago, Neutron played a starring role in last week's earnings report. In a post-earnings conference call with ...

and CEO Sir Peter Beck promised 2025 will be "the year of Neutron." So what did Rocket Lab tell us about Neutron last week, aside from what we already knew about the company's new megarocket?

The private space company Rocket Lab is on track to launch the first of its new reusable Neutron Rocket in the second half of 2025 and will eventually land them at sea, the company revealed.

Credit: Rocket Lab HOUSTON — Rocket Lab says the first launch of its Neutron rocket remains planned for 2025 after a recent research report concluded it could slip to as late as 2027.