Launch
With Us
Frequent and reliable access to space on your terms
Your Mission,
Your Way
Dedicated
A whole rocket to yourself.
Choose your orbit, your rocket, your launch schedule, and your launch site – you’re in control.
Rideshare
Launch together and still go exactly where you need to.
Thanks to the Kick Stage’s engine re-light capability, we can support plane changes, orbit raising, sustained low orbits, and staggered deployment. Satellites are deployed to precise and individual orbits, even when flying as a rideshare.
We’ve streamlined the path to orbit, enabling rapid call-up launch to support urgent missions, including constellation replenishment.
3 launch pads across 2 countries, enabling up to 132 launch slots annually. We put you in control, enabling launch timing down to the second.
Mid-inclination, Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) or Cislunar – all within reach.
The path to orbit
your mission
Our team will work with you to tailor every aspect of your mission. We’ve streamlined the contracting process to be simple, flexible and collaborative.
Our Mission Management team will lead you through the mission assurance program before the big day, taking care of flight environments, coupled loads analysis, mission reviews and more.
Processing
Choose from our three payload processing facilities across Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia, or our headquarters in Long Beach, CA. Each facility is home to ISO8 Class 100K cleanrooms to ensure humidity, temperature and particle control.
The big day. Live views of launch, real time communication with our Mission Management team, state vectors in rapid time, and speedy post-launch reporting.
Our Launch Sites
Choose from three launch pads across Rocket Lab’s two launch sites.
Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, and Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Launch Complex 1
Mahia, New Zealand -
Private Orbital
Launch Site
Rocket Lab offers the world’s only private orbital launch range in Mahia, New Zealand. An FAA-licensed spaceport, Launch Complex 1 can provide up to 120 launch opportunities every year. From the site it is possible to reach orbital inclinations from sun-synchronous through to 30 degrees, enabling a wide spectrum of inclinations to service the majority of the satellite industry’s missions to low Earth orbit.
Located within Launch Complex 1 are Rocket Lab’s private range control facilities, two 100K satellite cleanrooms, a launch vehicle assembly facility which can process multiple Electrons at once, and administrative offices. Operating a private orbital launch site alongside its own range and mission control centres allows Rocket Lab to reduce the overhead costs per mission, resulting in a cost-effective launch service for satellite operators.
Launch Complex 2
Wallops Island,
Virginia, USA
Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 2 represents a new responsive launch capability for the United States on home soil.
Tailored specifically for U.S. government small satellite missions, Launch Complex 2 can support up to 12 missions per year.
and control facilities
FAA-licensed orbital
launch site
launch for defense needs
and constellation replenishment