Rocket Lab (Rocket Lab Corporation, formerly Rocket Lab USA; Nasdaq RKLB) is an American aerospace manufacturer and end-to-end space company founded in 2006 by Peter Beck. It designs and launches the Electron small-lift orbital rocket, is developing the reusable Neutron medium-lift vehicle, and builds the Photon spacecraft platform along with satellites, spacecraft components, solar cells, reaction wheels, star trackers, separation systems and other space systems. Rocket Lab operates launch complexes in Mahia, New Zealand and at Wallops Island, Virginia, providing dedicated and rideshare launch services plus on-orbit management for commercial, civil and national-security customers. It was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Khosla Ventures; this profile is enriched from public identity and live domain probes only, as Rocket Lab publishes no public developer API surface.
Rocket Lab is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Aerospace, Space, Launch Services, and Satellites.
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label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
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method: derived
accessModel:
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onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
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status: 301
note: declared website redirects to https://rocketlabcorp.com/ — a different registrable domain (rocketlabusa.com -> rocketlabcorp.com),
possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/rocketlabusa.png
name: Rocket Lab
description: Rocket Lab (Rocket Lab Corporation, formerly Rocket Lab USA; Nasdaq RKLB) is an American aerospace manufacturer
and end-to-end space company founded in 2006 by Peter Beck. It designs and launches the Electron small-lift orbital rocket,
is developing the reusable Neutron medium-lift vehicle, and builds the Photon spacecraft platform along with satellites,
spacecraft components, solar cells, reaction wheels, star trackers, separation systems and other space systems. Rocket Lab
operates launch complexes in Mahia, New Zealand and at Wallops Island, Virginia, providing dedicated and rideshare launch
services plus on-orbit management for commercial, civil and national-security customers. It was added to the API Evangelist
network as a portfolio company of Khosla Ventures; this profile is enriched from public identity and live domain probes
only, as Rocket Lab publishes no public developer API surface.
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
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- Aerospace
- Space
- Launch Services
- Satellites
- Spacecraft
- Space Systems
- Defense
- Manufacturing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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