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Rocket Lab
Next Mission:
IoT 4 You and Me (Kinéis 16-20)
Launch Date:
2/3/2025, 8:43:00 PM
Launch Site:
Unknown Pad,
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Fourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.
Mission Type: Communications
Launch Vehicle: Electron
Mission Status: Go (probability of > 1% )
Target: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
We set out to really make space accessible and make space kind of the third domain where you can innovate and provide your services to everybody here on earth and Rocket Lab's Photon is really kind of the next logical step to doing that.
Rocket Lab ($RKLB)
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- IPO: August 25th, 2021
- PRICE: $28.77
- DELTA: -0.21 (-0.72%)
- HIGH/LOW: 30.45 / 28.35
- NASDAQ
Rocket Lab Special Event (2021):
Rocket Lab ($RKLB) goes public
On Wednesday, August 25th of 2021, Rocket Lab began trading on the Nasdaq, becoming the latest space company to close a merger with a special purpose acquisition company and go public. They closed the first day down slightly at $10.45 per share, under the ticker $RKLB.
“We are super excited to bring a high-quality space asset to the market” Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck told CNBC. “I don’t think it will take long for investors to differentiate between the company that’s consistently delivering and the ones that have aspirations to deliver sometime in the future” he later added.
Rocket Lab Special Event (2020):
Return to sender - a reusability milestone
The Return to Sender mission was Rocket Lab's 16th succesful launch of the Electron vehicle that occured on November 20, 2020. Launched from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, the mission was responsible for over 30 different satellites to sun-synchronous orbit in one payload. Customers included TriSept, Unseenlabs, Swarm, Auckland Programme for Space Systems, and global gaming software company Valve. This mission also included Rocket Lab's first attempt to bring Electron’s first stage back to Earth under a newly designed parachute system for a controlled water landing before collection by a recovery vessel - a major milestone in Rocket Lab’s pursuit to make Electron a reusable rocket to support an increased launch cadence for small satellites.
Half Life 2 fans may recognize "Gnome Chompski" who was launched as part of the payload thanks to Valve president, Gabe Newell. In homage to the memes, "Little Rocket Man" achievement and more; The Garden Gnome is co-designed by special effects and prop house Weta Workshop and made from titanium. Rocket Lab hopes to use it “to test and qualify a novel 3D printing technique that could be employed for future spacecraft components”. The gnome will be attached to the inside of Rocket Lab’s Kick Stage, the final stage of Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket that allows more accurate placement of satellites in orbit.
Rocket Lab Special Event (2017):
It's a test - First Electron Mission
It's a Test was the first launch of Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle. When Electron lifted-off at 16:20 NZT from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand, it became the first orbital-class rocket launched from from a private launch site. The mission saw Electron complete a perfect first stage burn, stage separation, second stage ignition and fairing separation. Electron successfully reached space and put Rocket Lab in an incredibly strong position to accelerate into commercial operations.