{"id":539897,"date":"2026-07-23T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539897\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:29:47","slug":"rocket-lab-stock-rises-after-the-bell-heres-why-rocket-lab-nasdaqrklb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539897\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Stock Rises After the Bell: Here&#8217;s Why &#8211; Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab Awarded Suborbital Launch Contract<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Rocket Lab has been awarded a $266 million firm-fixed-price completion contract for suborbital launch from the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The contract covers the launch of 12 suborbital launch vehicles, with six optional additional launches. Work will be performed at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2028. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The award was a competitive acquisition, with three offers received. Fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds totaling $112 million are being obligated at the time of the award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The Space Systems Command at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the contracting activity.<\/p>\n<p>RKLB Shares Rise After The Close<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">RKLB Price Action:\u00a0Rocket Lab shares were up 5.89% in after-hours, trading at $73.19 at the time of publication on Tuesday, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pro.benzinga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Benzinga Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Photo: courtesy of Rocket Lab.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"text-sm my-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/apis?utm_source=benzinga.com&amp;utm_campaign=article-bottom\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\u00a9 2026 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">To add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.benzinga.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Awarded Suborbital Launch Contract Rocket Lab has been awarded a $266 million firm-fixed-price completion contract for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,265893,265894,96696,16303,74337,18065,26614,12224,111,139,69,12223,16304,90604],"class_list":["post-539897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-category-after-hours-center","tag-category-contracts","tag-category-movers","tag-category-news","tag-category-space","tag-category-top-stories","tag-category-trading-ideas","tag-cms-wordpress","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pageisbzpro-bz","tag-symbol-rklb","tag-tag-why-its-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}