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K2 Space and Rocket Lab will supply spacecraft buses to SES and Viasat for the military's next-generation protected satcom program
The upcoming week features flights from China, California, Virginia, and Florida. Three Starlink launches, two... The post Launch Preview: Chinese, Rocket Lab, and Starlink flights scheduled appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
Rocket Lab launched another radar imaging satellite for Synspective as the company plans to sell up to $3 billion in stock to fund future initiatives.
Six launches are scheduled worldwide during the next week, with the 12th flight of SpaceX's... The post Launch Preview: Falcon 9, Electron, and Vega C launch missions alongside Starship Flight 12 appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
Rocket Lab opened 2026 by breaking every record it set in 2025. The company signed... The post Rocket Lab signs new launch contracts and acquires robotics company during Q1 2026 appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
Rocket Lab announced May 7 the largest launch contract in the company's history as it also moves to acquire a space robotics company.
The company pivoted to a Neutron rocket launch debut no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2026 following a first stage tank test failure earlier this year. The first flight of Neutron won't be reusable, but aims to recover the first stage during its second flight with a landing barge.
A Rocket Lab Electron launched a set of cubesats sponsored by the Japanese space agency JAXA April 22 on the company's second dedicated mission for the agency.
"Early technology development can be done at these small mom and pop shops, but when it really comes prime time to make things at scale, people like ourselves who are procurers of that, if they don't vertically integrate, they get very nervous," Rocket Lab CFO Adam Spice told Payload
"You look at things like Golden Dome. There were a couple of capability gates there where you had to demonstrate capability by deadlines in order to be eligible to continue to compete," Brian Rogers, Rocket Lab's VP of launch, told Payload. "The constraints around launch can pick winners and losers there if you don't have a way to get to space by a deadline."