Operator file · US-147
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is a commercial launch operator based in United States of America, founded in 2006. The register credits it with 97 launches flown under its own name — 93 successful, 4 failed, a lifetime success rate of 95.9%. It is not flying anything inside the current manifest window, though the register lists 61 scheduled launches under its own name.
Flight record
Launch statistics
Counts are launches filed under RL’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library register. They are not a count of missions or payloads: a spacecraft that flew on a contracted vehicle is credited to the operator that flew it.
Who flies for them, and who they fly for
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and it is the operator’s name the launch schedule filters by. A customer funds the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Plenty of organisations are both. RL is counted below in whichever role the current manifest actually gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight in the current window names RL while being operated by somebody else.
How this is counted: a scheduled launch is treated as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation appears in the launch name, mission name or programme and somebody else is flying it. Mission descriptions are not searched, and the window is one batch of the next launches worldwide, reaching to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z — so both counts are a floor, not a complete manifest.
About RL
Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.
Upcoming launches
Manifest
RL is not flying anything inside the current manifest window, which reaches to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z. The register lists 61 scheduled launches under its own name, with dates further out or not yet filed.
All upcoming launches“T-0 known to” is the register’s own precision on the launch time — a date good only to the month is shown as such rather than counted down as if it were exact. A go-probability appears only where the operator published one for that flight; Delta-V does not calculate it and it is not a forecast made here.
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Common questions
- How many launches has Rocket Lab flown?
- Rocket Lab has 97 launches on record under its own name, of which 93 succeeded and 4 failed. The register counts launches flown under an operator's own name, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is Rocket Lab's success rate?
- Rocket Lab has a lifetime launch success rate of 95.9%, calculated as 93 successful flights out of 97 attempts. Its current run is 56 consecutive successes.
- When is Rocket Lab's next launch?
- Rocket Lab is not flying anything inside Delta-V's current manifest window, which reaches to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z. The register lists 61 scheduled launches under its own name, with dates further out or not yet filed.
- Does Rocket Lab fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- Rocket Lab has 97 launches flown under its own name in the launch register. It is not the operator on any flight in the current manifest window. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count; a customer funds the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule lists only the former, which is why a well-known agency can be central to a flight and still not appear on it.
- Where is Rocket Lab based?
- Rocket Lab is based in United States of America and the register classifies it as a commercial operator. It was founded in 2006.