Rocket Lab
Long Beach, California, United States
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Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is a defense prime contractor based in Long Beach, United States working in space, missiles & munitions.
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company headquartered in Long Beach, California. It develops and launches orbital and suborbital rockets, including the Electron small-lift vehicle, the HASTE suborbital testbed and the reusable Neutron medium-lift vehicle. It also designs and manufactures rocket engines such as Archimedes and Rutherford, and builds satellites, spacecraft and space components, including the Photon platform, star trackers, reaction wheels and solar power products. Its launch sites are Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, and Launch Complex 2 and Launch Complex 3 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. The company supports national security, civil and commercial space customers, including hypersonic and missile defense test missions, and has a stated defense-related contract portfolio with the U.S. Space Force. The company was founded in 2006 and is publicly listed on the Nasdaq.
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Neutron
Reusable medium-lift launch vehicle
Reusable medium-lift rocket for deploying satellite constellations, delivering national security missions and planetary exploration missions.
HASTE
Suborbital testbed launch vehicle
Suborbital launch vehicle derived from Electron, providing high-cadence flight test opportunities for hypersonic and suborbital technology development.
Electron
Small-lift orbital launch vehicle
Small launch vehicle for dedicated and rideshare launches of small satellites to orbit.
Archimedes
Liquid rocket engine
Reusable, 3D-printed liquid oxygen and methane rocket engine used to power the Neutron first and second stages.
Photon
Spacecraft platform
Family of customizable small and medium spacecraft platforms for missions from low Earth orbit to interplanetary exploration.
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