Rocket Lab (Acquisition)
Funding Details
- Awarder
- RSS - spacenews.com
- Date Award
- May 27, 2025
- Vertical
- Aerospace
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
- Funding Amount:
- $275,000,000
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2006
- Traction
- Rocket Lab holds a $515 million contract to produce and operate 18 data-relay satellites for the Space Development Agency.
- Company Description
- Rocket Lab is a publicly traded aerospace manufacturer and launch services provider that is expanding into the defense sector through the acquisition of Geost, a supplier of electro-optical and infrared sensor payloads used in U.S. military satellites.
- Market
- Defense and Military Satellite Technology
- Location
- Long Beach, California, United States