Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 Launch Schedule

TBD

2025

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

Updated: Dec 10, 5:30am UTC

BlackSky Gen-3 4

TBD

2025

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

Updated: Dec 10, 7:30am UTC

BlackSky Gen-3 5

TBD

2025

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites

Updated: Dec 10, 7:30am UTC

NorthStar 2

TBD

2025

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

Four space situational awareness (SSA) satellites for Canadian company NorthStar Earth and Space.

Updated: Dec 10, 8:00am UTC

NorthStar 3

TBD

2025

Raise and Shine (RAISE-4)

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

Four space situational awareness (SSA) satellites for Canadian company NorthStar Earth and Space.

Updated: Dec 10, 1:00pm UTC

TBD

2025

🎯 Sun-Synchronous Orbit

RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. 6 of the demonstration payload, as well as as well as 4 cubesats originally planned to ride on the same launch vehicle, are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022. The launch vehicle was switched from Epsilon-S to Rocket Lab's Electron due to continuous testing problems with the Epsilon-S' 2nd stage motor. The original 8 hitch-hiking cubesats will be launched on another Electron rocket later.

Last Update: NET December

StriX Launch 9

TBD

2025

🎯 Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Updated: Aug 2, 12:00pm UTC

StriX Launch 8

TBD

2025

🎯 Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Updated: Aug 2, 12:00pm UTC

LEO-PNT Pathfinder A

TBD

2025

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s LEO-PNT (Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation and Timing) demonstrator mission will feature a 10-satellite constellation demonstration mission that will assess how a low Earth orbit fleet of satellites can work in combination with the Galileo and EGNOS constellations in higher orbits that provide Europe’s own global navigation system. This launch will lift 2 “Pathfinder A” satellites built by Thales Alenia Space and GMV to a 510 km altitude Low Earth Orbit.

Updated: Oct 23, 4:00am UTC

VICTUS HAZE

TBD

Mar 2026

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

VICTUS HAZE will see Rocket Lab design, build, launch, and operate a rendezvous proximity operation (RPO) capable spacecraft. U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC)’s Space Safari’s VICTUS HAZE mission will be an exercise of a realistic threat-response scenario and on-orbit space domain awareness (SDA) demonstration. Once the spacecraft build is complete, Rocket Lab will be entered into a Hot Standby Phase awaiting further direction. Once the exercise begins, Rocket Lab will be given notice to launch the spacecraft into a target orbit. After reaching orbit, the spacecraft will be rapidly commissioned and readied for operations. Rocket Lab will configure a Pioneer class spacecraft bus to meet the unique requirements of the VICTUS HAZE mission. The mission will improve Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) processes and timelines, demonstrating the ability to respond to on-orbit threats on very short timelines and validating techniques for space domain awareness (SDA) and on-orbit characterization. Rocket Lab’s constellation-class production capability and discriminating technical capabilities in the areas of in-space propulsion, precision attitude control, low latency communications, and autonomous operations are key enablers for this mission.

Last Update: NET early 2026.

Aspera

TBD

Mar 2026

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

Aspera houses an ultraviolet telescope and will examine hot gas in the intergalactic medium, thought to be contributing to the birth of stars and planets. Aspera will be the first NASA astrophysics mission to gather and map these ultraviolet light signatures, potentially unlocking a deeper understanding of the origins of stars, planets, and life in the universe.

Updated: May 24, 5:30am UTC

LOXSAT 1

TBD

Mar 2026

Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

🎯 Low Earth Orbit

LOXSAT 1 is a demonstration satellite of a complete cryogenic oxygen fluid management system in orbit, developed by Eta Space and sponsored by NASA's Tipping Point program. The system will be integrated on a Rocket Lab Photon-LEO satellite bus and collect critical cryogenic fluid management data in orbit for 9 months, demonstrating capabilities of in-space cryogenic storage and transferal. Eta Space plans to use technology developed for this mission to develop a truly commercial depot intended to serve multiple customers in the future.

Updated: Oct 14, 5:00pm UTC

TBD

Mar 2026

🎯 Sun-Synchronous Orbit

JAXA-manifested rideshare of eight separate spacecraft that includes educational small sats, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration satellite for ultra-small multispectral cameras, and a deployable antenna that can be packed tightly using origami folding techniques and unfurled to 25 times its size. The satellites were originally planned to launch with RAISE-4 on a Japanese Epsilon-S rocket, but the Epsilon-S was heavily delayed due to test firing failures. The 8 satellites are: * MAGNARO-II * KOSEN-2R * WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II * FSI-SAT2 * OrigamiSat-2 * Mono-Nikko * ARICA-2 * PRELUDE

Last Update: NET Q1 2026.

StriX Launch 12

TBD

2026

🎯 Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Updated: Aug 2, 12:00pm UTC

StriX Launch 11