Short description
Rocket Lab designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and satellites for commercial, civil, and defense applications.
Description
Rocket Lab is a space company that builds rockets and spacecraft that make it easier to get into orbit and do amazing things there. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services that provide frequent and reliable access to space for civil, defense, and commercial markets. Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron launch vehicle and Photon satellite platform and is developing the Neutron launch vehicle. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered 105 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations, enabling operations in national security, scientific research, space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and communications. Rocket Lab has two launch sites, including a private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a second launch site in Virginia, USA, expected to be operational by the end of 2021. Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus.
Last funding
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Total funding
$$2020202
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Location
Long Beach, California, United States, North America
Founded on
January 1, 2006
Exited on
August 25, 2021
Went public on
August 25, 2021
Stock symbol
RKLB
Non-profit?
No
Acquired?
No
Employees count
1001-5000
Revenue range
$7890 - 12340
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Investors
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Founders
Peter Beck
Funding rounds count
1
Portfolio organisations count
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