Rocket Lab

Designs and manufactures small and medium-lift launch vehicles, satellites, and spacecraft components for commercial, civil, and defense customers

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$601.8M REVENUE FY25 37 SATS ON ORBIT 134 LAUNCHES $93.4M FED AWARDS 353 OPEN ROLES 2,600 EMPLOYEES *

What federal contracts has Rocket Lab received?

BY AGENCY CONTRACT ANALYSIS
$93.4M 16 AWARDS
NASA 11 $66.8M
Defense 5 $26.6M
AWARDS
2026 DEVELOP GEOSPACE DYNAMICS CONSTELLATION (GDC) TRAILBLAZER MISSION CONCEPTS THAT WILL ADDRESS THE OBJECTIVES OF A FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MANIFEST REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT (MRD) TITLED T0433 GDC TRAILBLAZER NASA $433K
2026 MARS END-TO-END COMMUNICATION SERVICE ARCHITECTURES: STUDIES TO ADVANCE END-TO-END COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS FOR MARS EXPLORATION, IDENTIFYING PERFORMANCE NEEDS AND COMMERCIAL SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES. NASA $391K
2025-26 THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP GEN 1 SOLAR SAIL MISSION CONCEPTS THAT WILL ADDRESS THE OBJECTIVES OF A FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MANIFEST REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT (MRD) TITLED T0412 GEN1 SOLAR SAIL DEMONSTRATION NASA $546K
2025-26 NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH (NSSL) PHASE 3 LANE 1 LAUNCH SERVICES PROCUREMENT Defense $5M
2024 CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE RAPID STUDIES FOR THE MARS SAMPLE RETURN (MSR) PROGRAM. NASA $625K
2024-26 MINIMUM GUARANTEED NASA $25,000
2024-26 THE OBJECTIVE OF THE STP-S30 MISSION IS TO DELIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERIMENTS TO SPACE THAT MATURE EXISTING CAPABILITIES AND DEMONSTRATE NEXT-GENERATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE SPACE DOMAIN TO ENSURE A FUTURE OF SPACE DOMINANCE. Defense $14.5M
2023-25 ROCKET LAB QUINTESSENTIAL STUDIES Defense $262K
2023-32 VENTURE-CLASS ACQUISITION OF DEDICATED AND RIDESHARE (VADR) UMBRELLA TASK ORDER NASA $45M
2022-23 TIME-RESOLVED OBSERVATIONS OF PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE AND STORM INTENSITY WITH A CONSTELLATION OF SMALLSATS (TROPICS) LAUNCH SERVICES TASK ORDER (LSTO). NASA —
2021-24 LOW COST EXPENDABLE LAUNCH TECHNOLOGY NASA $2.6M
2020 REACTION WHEELS NASA $93,500
2020-23 CISLUNAR AUTONOMOUS POSITIONING SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS AND NAVIGATION EXPERIMENT (CAPSTONE) LAUNCH SERVICE NASA $10.1M
2019 OSP-4 MINUMUM AWARD Defense $50,000
2018-20 LAUNCH SERVICES FOR RF RISK REDUCTION DEPLOYMENT DEMONSTRATION (R3D2) Defense $6.8M
2015-20 IGF::OT::IGF. VCLS IS A FIRM-FIXED PRICE CONTRACT FOR A DEDICATED LAUNCH SERVICE FOR U-CLASS SATELLITES WITH NASA HAVING SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PAYLOAD ON THE LAUNCH VEHICLE. NASA LAUNCH SERVICES PROGRAM (LSP) SUPPORTS THE CUBESAT LAUNCH INITIATIVE (CSLI) BY PROVIDING LAUNCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR CUBESATS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON THE MANIFEST BACK LOG. NASA $7M
DATA & SOURCES
USAspending.govspace-relevant federal prime-award obligations, attributed by verified recipient identity