- Headquarters
- Long Beach, United States · North America
- Value chain
- Hardware & devices(Products); also Operations & infrastructure
- What that means
- Makes physical products under its own name: computers, robots, vehicles, aircraft, drones, satellites, batteries, solar modules, reactors and medical devices.
- Founded
- 2006
- Staff
- 2,100 (2024)
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- Nasdaq:RKLB on Google Finance
- Website
- rocketlabusa.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Space Launch & Reusable Systems
Long Beach, United StatesIn 3 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Space Launch & Reusable SystemsVery high
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #3 of 50
Flies the Electron small launcher (with booster recovery trials) from New Zealand and the US and is developing the reusable medium-lift Neutron rocket and Archimedes engine.
Relevance: Second most frequent US launcher; Electron leads small launch, Neutron coming
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #16 of 50
Vertically integrated maker of spacecraft buses (Photon, Pioneer), solar arrays, reaction wheels and star trackers, and prime for 18 SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer satellites and the MDA-built Globalstar parts.
Relevance: Vertically integrated bus and component maker, SDA contracts
Space Technologies · Operation · listed #23 of 50
Makes the 3D-printed electric-pump Rutherford and the Archimedes methalox engine, and flies the HASTE suborbital vehicle for US hypersonic flight tests.
Relevance: Rutherford and Archimedes engines; innovative small launch propulsion