Rocket Lab
@RocketLab
Official account for Rocket Lab, the end-to-end space company. We build rockets and spacecraft that open access to space to improve life on Earth.
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Viva La StriX! The owl is ready to take flight for the ninth time on Electron🦉🚀. Our next mission for @synspective is set to launch from Launch Complex 1 NET May 22.
Launch window opens:
🚀 9:30 pm NZST
🚀 09:30 UTC
🚀 6:30 pm JST
🚀 5:30 am EDT
🚀 2:30 am PDT
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$RKLB shareholders: WE NEED YOUR VOTE! Vote your shares before May 20, 2026.
It’s time to vote ahead of this year’s $RKLB Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 20, 2026.
Shareholders of record can vote now for or against a number of proposals by the Rocket Lab Board of Directors. We encourage all shareholders to vote with the Rocket Lab Board’s recommendations on all matters.
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We're LOX'd and Loaded for LOXSAT❄️Our spacecraft carrying @eta_space's payload will launch on Electron later this year to test out cryo fuel storage and management in low Earth orbit - aka gas station technologies in space⛽
By providing both the spacecraft and the launch for this mission, that's streamlined access to space in action for @eta_space and @NASA_Marshall.
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A gas station with a view⛽
During deep space missions, spacecrafts will need to refuel. So, NASA and Eta Space are working on a technology demonstration called LOXSAT that is necessary for creating in-space propellant depots - aka gas stations.
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The 1,000th Rutherford engine has rolled off the production line🎉The world's first 3D printed, battery-powered rocket engine is now one of the most manufactured rocket engines on Earth.
Congratulations to the production and development teams behind Rutherford. You make the most complex engineering and manufacturing feats look easy.
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It was an honor to host the Chief of Space Operations General Chance Saltzman @SpaceForceCSO at Rocket Lab recently. From responsive launch to advanced spacecraft, we’re proud to play a central role in securing the ultimate high ground for the @USSpaceForce.
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Turning sunlight into survival - the role Rocket Lab solar cells play in the Artemis missions.
It’s time to vote ahead of this year’s $RKLB Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 20, 2026.
Shareholders of record can vote now for or against a number of proposals by the Rocket Lab Board of Directors. We encourage all shareholders to vote with the Rocket Lab Board’s recommendations on all matters.
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Rocket Lab Robotics is coming 🤖
Our acquisition strategy is proven and effective: identify the best space technologies that have struggled to scale, and bring them into the Rocket Lab ecosystem.
That’s what we’re doing with Motiv Space Systems, adding Mars-proven robotics heritage to our rapidly expanding capabilities. As leaders in motion control systems and precision mechanisms, Motiv will also bring in-house traditionally costly and supply-constrained spacecraft components including solar array drive assemblies, antenna and propulsion gimbals, filter wheels, focus mechanisms, and precision drive electronics.
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Successful stage separation test campaign ✅ We're validating stage separation for Neutron, one of the most novel rocket separation systems ever designed.
From sep system design, component testing and qualification, GSE design, manufacturing, commissioning, and operations planning through to test execution - we're proving out the technology behind one of Neutron's most critical events for mission success.
Up next: moving into intentional off-nominal separation events with non-flight test articles to further push the system's resilience.
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for your enjoyment
It's all gas no breaks with Archimedes engine testing at @NASAStennis. Full duration burns with TVC motions across the full conical sweep, vacuum engine hot fires, and both Archimedes test cells in operation all day every day. Archimedes is coming 🔥
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