ROCKET LAB

Rocket Lab will launch a radar satellite Thursday (Sept. 15) at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT), and you can watch the action live.

Rocket Lab has signed an unfunded agreement with the United States Transportation Command to study the possibility of using Electron and Neutron launchers to deliver cargo around the world.

Rocket Lab turned up the heat on a space-flown rocket engine Thursday (Sept. 1) as part of its quest to make Electron first stages reusable.

Firefly Aerospace finished a static fire of its rocket Wednesday (Aug. 17) and set a launch date for the second-ever Alpha mission.

Rocket Lab officials plan to snag another falling Electron rocket out of the air by the end of 2022, they announced Thursday (Aug. 11).

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-199 mission launched early this morning (Aug. 4) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster from New Zealand.

Rocket Lab will launch a U.S. spy satellite in the wee hours of Tuesday morning (Aug. 2), and you can watch the action live.

Rocket Lab says its launch of a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite will stand down for now, with new launch date 'to come.'

Rocket Lab has delivered another satellite to orbit for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Rocket Lab will launch a U.S. spy satellite to orbit early Wednesday morning (July 13), and you can watch the action live.

A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth and is headed toward the moon.

Rocket Lab launched a small spacecraft bound for the moon on Tuesday, a mission that represents firsts for both the company and NASA.

NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface

NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface.

NASA has called off plans to launch a small cubesat to the moon on Monday (June 27) to allow more time to check its Rocket Lab booster for flight.

Rocket Lab will launch NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat to the moon from New Zealand atop an Electron booster and you can watch it live online.

The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back again, this time to no earlier than June 25.

The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back another week, to no earlier than June 13.

The little CAPSTONE spacecraft will have to wait a bit longer for its big lunar launch.

The liftoff of the CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed four days to no earlier than May 31, NASA announced this week.

Rocket Lab has given us new views of its epic booster snag earlier this month.

In making its boosters reusable, Rocket Lab would be able to launch more often while simultaneously decreasing the material cost of each mission.

Using a helicopter to catch a falling rocket is such a complex task that Peter Beck likens it to a “supersonic ballet.”.

Using a helicopter to catch a falling rocket is such a complex task that Peter Beck likens it to a “supersonic ballet.” Rocket Lab, the company that Beck founded, partially pulled off the feat Tuesday as it pushes to make its small Electron rockets reusable. The California-based company regularly launches 18-meter (59-foot) rockets from the remote Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand to deliver satellites into space.

Rocket Lab caught a returning booster with a helicopter during an orbital launch today (May 2), notching a huge milestone for the company and its quest to make its Electron rocket partially reusable.

Space company Rocket Lab on Monday will attempt to catch the booster of its Electron rocket using a helicopter.

Rocket Lab has postponed the launch of an Electron rocket it hopes to recovery with a helicopter to no earlier than Monday (May 2).

Early next month, Rocket Lab is slated to launch a pathfinding cubesat mission that supports NASA's Artemis return-to-the moon program.

Rocket Lab aims to catch a falling booster with a helicopter for the first time ever this week, and a new video shows us how the action is supposed to go down.

Rocket Lab will attempt to catch a falling Electron first stage with a helicopter during its next orbital mission, which will lift off no earlier than April 19.

A Rocket Lab Electron launcher lifted off Saturday (April 2) from the company's New Zealand site, carrying two BlackSky Earth-observing satellites to orbit.

Rocket Lab and SpaceX both plan to launch missions on Friday (April 1), and you can watch the space doubleheader live.

Rocket Lab will build its next-generation Neutron launcher in Virginia, at a site adjacent to the company's coastal U.S. launch pad.

Rocket Lab lofted a private Earth-observation satellite today (Feb. 28) from the newly finished second pad at its Launch Complex 1, on New Zealand's North Island.

Rocket Lab is ready to launch the first mission from its newly built pad in New Zealand on Monday (Feb. 28), and you can watch the event live.

Rocket Lab has finished work on the second pad at its New Zealand launch complex — and this newly built Pad B is set to host its first liftoff as early as Monday (Feb. 28).

An Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites lifted off Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 7:02 p.m. EST (0002 Dec. 9 GMT).

An Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites is scheduled to lift off Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 6:45 p.m. EST (2345 GMT). Watch it live here.

RocketLab's next-generation Neutron rocket promises to take reusability to the next level with a 'hungry hippo' nose cone integrated into a first stage that returns to the launch pad ready to fly again like an aircraft.

Rocket Lab on Thursday unveiled more about the larger, reusable Neutron rocket it is developing.

Rocket Lab will lift the veil on its next-generation rocket on Thursday (Dec. 2) and you can watch it live online.

Rocket Lab plans to pluck the falling first stage of one of its Electron launchers out of the sky with a helicopter on its next recovery mission.

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has dramatically changed his tune on reusing rockets, a practice made increasingly popular by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Rocket Lab recovered a first-stage booster during its successful launch on Wednesday (Nov. 17), taking another step toward rocket reuse.

Rocket Lab successfully launched two satellites into orbit and aimed to recover the mission's booster, taking another step in its quest to build a partially reusable rocket.

Rocket Lab plans to recover a booster after launching two satellites to orbit tonight (Nov. 10), and you can watch the action live.

Rocket Lab plans to recover the first stage of an Electron launcher during its next mission, which is scheduled to lift off from New Zealand during a two-week window that opens on Nov. 11.

The volatile nature of space rocket engines means that many early prototypes end up embedded in dirt banks or decorating the tops of any trees that are unfortunate enough to neighbour testing sites.

Rocket Lab signed a five-launch contract with European satellite data company Kinéis. The deal adds to the space company's backlog.

Khosla Ventures, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, made multiple early bets on Rocket Lab that are paying off enormously.

Hundreds of millions of dollars now are flowing to an industry long viewed as too risky for serious investment.

California-based Rocket Lab just completed its previously announced merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

NASA's plan to "reboot" human exploration of the moon will get kick-started soon by a spacecraft the size of a microwave oven.

New Zealand has become the latest country to sign a space agreement with U.S. space agency NASA, just as New Zealand’s nascent space industry begins to take off.

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It's was part of a pre-planned test carried out by Virgin Orbit, the space startup backed by British entrepreneur Richard Branson. Wednesday's spectacle, during which a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket was intentionally left to freefall back to the ground for a "drop test," was the final step toward reaching that goal. Once the plane reached about 35,000 feet, the typical cruising altitude for commercial aircraft, the rocket was released. Virgin Orbit was spun off from Branson's other space venture, Virgin Galactic, in 2017. In an email Thursday, Virgin Orbit spokesperson Kendall Russell added that the company is "financially comfortable."