{"id":364784,"date":"2025-12-22T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364784\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:48:10","slug":"rocket-lab-builds-on-fridays-gain-after-landmark-816-million-satellite-contract-and-record-electron-rocket-launches-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364784\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab builds on Friday\u2019s gain after landmark $816 million satellite contract and record Electron rocket launches in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocket Lab<\/a> is ending the year with a timely boost to its fortunes.<\/p>\n

The company is up another ~4% in pre-market trading on Monday, building on Friday\u2019s ~18% gain which came after the company announced an $816 million deal to design and manufacture 18 satellites for the US Space Development Agency on Friday, marking the company\u2019s largest single contract to date.<\/p>\n

Per Rocket Lab\u2019s press release<\/a>, CEO Peter Beck commented that, \u201cAs the only commercial provider producing both spacecraft and payloads in-house for the SDA Tracking Layer, Rocket Lab is delivering a truly disruptive solution that combines speed, resilience, and affordability,\u201d emphasizing the company\u2019s vertically integrated manufacturing approach, with all of the major components of its satellites designed and produced in-house. <\/p>\n

In a separate announcement<\/a> on Monday, Rocket Lab also shared the successful launch of its 21st Electron rocket of the year, and the seventh for Japanese Earth imaging company Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc., finishing the year with a 100% mission success for its flagship spacecraft and establishing it as the world\u2019s most frequently-launched small-lift orbital rocket, according to the company. The company has plans for five additional Electron launches for iQPS 2026.<\/p>\n

Another name in the space arena, satellite peer AST SpaceMobile<\/a>, is also trading higher after spiking at the end of last week. Following a 15% gain on Friday, ASTS is up another 4% early on Monday as optimism builds for its BlueBird 6 launch, pivotal to the company\u2019s direct-to-smartphone strategy, scheduled<\/a> to launch on December 23, 2025 at 10:24 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab is ending the year with a timely boost to its fortunes. The company is up another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-364784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}