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Long Beach, CA, US
Rocket Lab
Electron, Neutron, Photon buses, spacecraft components. Based in Long Beach, CA, US, founded 2006 by Peter Beck.
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, US
- Founded
- 2006
- Notable investors
- Beck Peter, VANGUARD GROUP INC, VK Services, LLC, Khosla Ventures V, L.P., KHOSLA VENTURES SEED B, L.P. disclosed holders above 5%, from SEC filings
No chief executive on record here. We show a name only where we can point at the page it came from.
Where they are 11
Headquarters in Long Beach, and hiring in 10 other places on their live postings: Middle River, Littleton, Wallops Island, Albuquerque, Tucson, Pasadena and 4 more. Every company on one map
Electron, Neutron, Photon buses, spacecraft components.
Open roles 512
All 512 open roles, prefiltered on the jobs index
Launch record 14 flown
The record shows 14 flown and 10 scheduled, from Jan 22, 2026 onward, 12 of them recorded by both Launch Library and the Wikipedia launch lists. This is what we hold rather than the company's full history: our launch record begins where our collection does.
| Date | Mission | Outcome | Grade | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2026 | Electron | StriX Launch 13 | TBD | ||
| Dec 20, 2026 | Electron | Skylark (Lemur-2) × 4 | Go | ||
| Dec 4, 2026 | Electron | Aspera | Go | ||
| Dec 4, 2026 | Neutron | Unknown payload | Go | ||
| Oct 31, 2026 | Electron | StriX Launch 12 | TBD | ||
| Sep 30, 2026 | Electron | LOXSAT 1 | TBD | ||
| Sep 30, 2026 | Electron | 6x HawkEye 360 | TBD | ||
| Sep 30, 2026 | Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 6 | TBD | ||
| Sep 11, 2026 | Electron | Happily Ever Faster (BlackSky Gen-3 5) | Full success | A | 100 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Electron | Unknown | Full success | A | 100 |
On the record 3 claims
- Missed All in all, we continue to push extremely hard for end-of-year launch. End of 2025
- Achieved We expect revenue in the first quarter to range between $185,000,000 and $200,000,000. Q1 2026 results
- Pending Neutron's first launch is now targeted for Q4 2026. Q4 2026
Of these, 1 missed, 1 pending, 1 achieved. Each claim's full quote, source and evidence is on Claims & outcomes.
In the news 5
- Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA's decision on a Mars spacecraft
- Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract
- In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract. Now, in a striking reversal, Blue Origin has won a NASA Mars communications-orbiter contract worth up to $700 million—and losing bidder Rocket Lab has filed its own protest with the same federal watchdog.
- Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract
- Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite to orbit for secret customer (photo)