23 Facts About Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab is a public American aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider, with a New Zealand subsidiary.

Rocket Lab is currently operating lightweight Electron orbital rockets, providing dedicated launches for small satellites.

Rocket Lab has announced a plan to build a larger Neutron rocket, as early as 2024.

Rocket Lab then established a headquarter in California in 2013 and developed the expendable Electron rocket.

Rocket Lab was founded in June 2006 by Peter Beck from New Zealand, after a trip to the United States.

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Rocket Lab became the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space after launching its Atea-1 sounding rocket in November 2009.

In December 2010, Rocket Lab was awarded a U S government contract from the Operationally Responsive Space Office to study a low cost space launcher to place CubeSats into orbit.

Lockheed Martin became a strategic investor in 2015, and Rocket Lab announced in March 2017 that it had raised an additional US$75 million in a Series D equity round led by Data Collective with participation by Promus Ventures and several previous investors.

Rocket Lab began to develop reusable first-stage technology in 2018, after previously stating publicly that they had no intention of attempting to recover and then reuse their small low-cost launch vehicles.

Rocket Lab said that it will use Sinclair technology on its Photon line of small satellite buses, and that it would help Sinclair increase production of small satellite components for sale to other firms.

Rocket Lab planned to accomplish the IPO through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company called Vector Acquisition Corporation .

Rocket Lab began trading on the Nasdaq on 25 August 2021 after it merged with SPAC Vector Acquisition, which valued Rocket Lab at $4.

At the time of going public, Rocket Lab had over 500 employees and it had launched 105 satellites into orbit up to that point in time.

Rocket Lab expects to spend about $200 million of the cash gained from going public to develop its next-generation rocket Neutron.

Rocket Lab is building a small probe, called the Venus Life Finder, with the ability to fly through Venus's upper atmosphere for roughly five minutes between 29 and 37 miles above the planets' surface.

On 15 September 2022, Rocket Lab launched "The Owl Spreads Its Wings" mission, sending a radar satellite into Earth orbit.

Rocket Lab have said they are going to aim to make the first stage of the vehicle reusable with landings planned on a floating landing platform downrange in the ocean.

In March 2022, Rocket Lab announced that Neutron will be built at a facility adjacent to Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport .

In October 2019, Rocket Lab announced plans to use Photon to launch small payloads into lunar orbit as soon as fourth quarter 2020.

In 2012, Rocket Lab demonstrated a rocket propelled by a Viscous Liquid Monopropellant developed in work sponsored by DARPA and the Office of Naval Research .

Rocket Lab has been issued on a Viscous Liquid Monopropellant which discloses additional details.

In October 2018, Rocket Lab revealed their new manufacturing facility in Auckland, New Zealand.

In March 2021, Rocket Lab announced that they would modify the pad infrastructure at Launch Complex 0A in order to be able to launch the medium-lift launch vehicle Neutron from LP-0A, with the initial launch planned for as early as 2024.