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While waiting for Neutron, this mission will fly the large Rocket Lab built ESCAPADE Mars climate probes there. One day when Neutron is operational, end to end deep space missions will be possible for Rocket Lab to do all by itself.

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Mars isn’t easy. Orbit gaps could leave explorers out of contact. Power’s always a challenge. And reliable communication is in demand.

Rocket Lab’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter will change that. 🌎➡️🔴 bit.ly/41NH6lV

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Built. Integrated. Preparing to fuel the future.

Our Photon spacecraft for Eta Space & NASA's LOXSAT cryogenic fueling mission is complete ✅

🛰️ An end-to-end Rocket Lab mission
🌐 Tech demo to support orbital propellant depots
🚀 Launching on Electron in early 2026

Read more: bit.ly/4qmAl55

📣 It’s time for another Electron launch!

'The Nation God Navigates’ will be our sixth mission for iQPS.

Launch window opens:

⏰ 11:45 am Pacific, November 5
⏰ 2:45 pm Eastern, November 5
⏰ 19:45 UTC, November 5
⏰ 4:45 am JST, November 6
⏰ 8:45 am NZT, November 6

Electron is vertical on the pad and operations are underway for today’s launch from Pad A at LC-1 with Synspective.

Liftoff is targeted for:
⏰UTC | 16:33
⏰NZDT | 5:33 a.m.
⏰JST | 1:33 a.m.
⏰ET | 12:33 p.m.
⏰PT | 9:33 a.m.

We've signed a direct contract with JAXA for two dedicated launches on Electron!

The first JAXA mission is scheduled to take place in December. Launch timing and further information to come.

ℹ️: bit.ly/48Vw6qD

We’ve signed another Electron multi-launch agreement: three dedicated missions for Japan-based Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (@iQPS_Inc)!

This latest bulk buy brings the total number of upcoming missions for iQPS to seven.

More info: bit.ly/4o7a2hd

Rocket Lab knows Mars. The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter is where our heritage meets the future of Mars comms.

Our MTO is designed for speed AND value:
✅ Supporting Humans on Mars.
✅ Faster sample return.
✅ A firm-fixed framework.
✅ More exploration.

Learn more: bit.ly/41NH6lV

We've secured a second multi-launch contract with Synspective – bringing the total number of upcoming missions with them to 21, the largest order of dedicated Electron missions with a single customer to date.

Learn more: bit.ly/46LT94K

⚡ Meet Lightning ⚡Our high-power, long-life spacecraft platform built for LEO & beyond.

Now in production at scale in Long Beach:
🔹 17 🛰️ for Globalstar’s next-gen constellation
🔹 18 🛰️ for SDA’s T2TL-Beta constellation

When the mission calls for endurance, Lightning strikes.
🔗 bit.ly/3YlOEdK

Imagine astronauts calling home from Mars or scientists sharing discoveries in real time. 🌎➡️🔴

That future begins by implementing a modern Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, the communications infrastructure Rocket Lab is ready to build. 🔗https://bit.ly/41NH6lV

ESCAPADE: Journey to Mars The journey is just beginning! Rocket Lab's twin spacecraft for NASA and UC Berkeley's ESCAPADE mission have arrived at Kennedy Space Flight Center in preparation for their launch to Mars.

⏱️150,000 hours 🛣️2,574 miles 🚚38 hours
That’s what it took to design, build, test & deliver our two ESCAPADE spacecraft from Long Beach to Kennedy Space Center. Next stop: 🛰️🔴🛰️ Mars to study its magnetosphere & unlock clues for future explorers. bit.ly/4mshUbK

🌌🛰️ Our two ESCAPADE spacecraft will soon be added to the list of spacecraft and satellite components we design, build & deliver that push the frontiers of space exploration & science.

From Earth orbit to Mars — this is what end-to-end looks like. 🔗https://bit.ly/4fULfd9

From cleanroom to countdown.

🛰️Blue & Gold 🛰️are finishing up testing in our Long Beach, CA clean room before shipment back to Florida for launch to Mars.

Every hardware and system check brings NASA & UC Berkeley's ESCAPADE mission one step closer to unlocking Red Planet science. 🔴

To Mars from MARS? With Launch Complex 3 open and Neutron on its way, the future of launch from Virginia is all about assured access to space for the most important future missions.

Talk first. Land later.

Rocket Lab’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter will deliver persistent, high-bandwidth comms between Mars and Earth—keeping future astronauts safe, connected & mission-ready.

This is just a glimpse of what’s coming. 🔗 bit.ly/41NH6lV

🚀 Launch Complex 3 is here! We’re ready to cut the ribbon on Neutron's new world-class test, launch, and landing facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

Join us for the live broadcast of our opening reception around 10 a.m. EST: rocketlabcorp.com/live-stream/

This is the ultimate gift to China Comrade Trump is giving: destroying not only US lead in science but destroying all of it. Most of tech exists due to past US investment in science through NASA, NSF, DARPA, RAND, etc. The entire space industry Rocket Lab included will experience long term damage.

Rocket Lab shares soar on increased investments and Neutron rocket launch complex opening. Rocket Lab shares soar on increased investments and Neutron rocket launch complex opening.

The Neutron rocket is a truly cost efficient commercial launcher development program, as opposed to the many failures with SpaceX. Rocket Lab also works hard to advance space science missions and quality tech with its space hardened semiconductors CHIPS investment.
www.ainvest.com/news/rocket-...

We’re strengthening America’s semiconductor industrial base & expanding production of our space-grade solar cells with support from the @commercegov.bsky.social & CHIPS Act - helping to secure the domestic supply chain of this critical tech for aerospace and defense. Learn more: bit.ly/3HN4V6k

MISSION SUCCESS for Electron’s 70th launch and latest lift-off from LC-1!

❤️ Lived.
😄 Laughed.
🚀 Launched.
✅ Payload deployed.

MAGA’s March Toward a Command Economy The Trump approach to the economy is anything but conservative, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, former Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper, former Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, former Medtronic CEO Bill G...

Top Yale economists warn Trump is moving America from free capitalism towards command economy resembling a Marxist or Maoist system. This will gradually adversely affect all businesses (Rocket Lab included), besides taking away our freedoms.

insights.som.yale.edu/insights/mag...

Cool! My wife also went to Cal Poly. They are famous for their Aerospace Engineering department with famous alumni such as Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11, the first human Moon Landing mission. Hoping Rocket Lab with its Neutron rocket will also enter manned space flight.

aero.calpoly.edu/aero-pioneers/

Launch alert! It’s time for Electron’s 70th mission, ‘Live, Laugh, Launch’ ✌️🌴🐚

Scheduled to lift off from LC-1 no earlier than:

⏰ August 24, 10:30 a.m. NZT
⏰ August 23, 22:30 UTC
⏰ August 23, 6:30 p.m. EDT
⏰ August 23, 3:30 p.m. PDT

Find out more: rocketlabcorp.com/missions/next-mission

It’s official, we’ve acquired Geost! Adding space-based missile defense, space protection & space domain awareness sensors to our extensive portfolio of capabilities, securing the technology needed for next-generation defense initiatives & U.S. national security missions - bit.ly/3UmNjRF

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MISSION SUCCESS and payload deployment confirmed for QPS-SAR-12 on Electron’s 69th launch.