The Lane 1 awards are part of the Space Force's launch plan that focuses on new or smaller companies that can grow into ...

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles. Rocket Lab And Stoke Space Join U.S. NSSL Lane 1 Vendor Pool is part of our Aviation Week & Space Technology - ...

Credit: Rocket Lab Private launch companies Rocket Lab and Stoke Space have been selected to compete for future U.S. national security space launches. The two launch companies were awarded ...

Rocket Lab secured a $5.6 billion NSSL Phase 3 contract, enhancing its defense and government contract portfolio. See why I ...

Rocket Lab's management says backlog is a metric prone to lumpiness: While year-on-year backlog growth was modest at ...

The awards are part of the service’s National Security Space Launch program, which it uses to acquire nearly all military space launches.

SpaceX is a space launch juggernaut. In just two decades, the company has managed to edge out former aerospace heavyweights ...

Rocket Lab, which launches from Hawke's Bay and the US, has won into a significant Pentagon contract, which includes billions ...

Other space companies have been scrambling to compete with SpaceX for years, but developing a reliable rocket takes slow, ...