(Bloomberg) -- Rocket Lab USA Inc. blasted off for space for the first time since its September failure, in a key test of the company’s ability to challenge SpaceX’s dominant Falcon 9.

Rocket Lab is gearing up for the next flight of its Electron small-satellite launch vehicle. The mission will fly a spacecraft known as "The Moon God Awakens" for Japan-based company iQPS, which ...

The amount of short interest in Rocket Lab’s stock is rising but its founder and chief executive Sir Peter Beck is not fazed ...

With an estimated price-per-launch of $12 million, the fully expendable Terran 1 would fit somewhere between Rocket Lab’s Electron and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 in terms of cost and capability ...

The nation’s military space wing has opened bidding for new rocket launch contracts worth up to $5.6 billion, and it’s aimed ...

Spreading out large payloads across multiple Electron rockets can also hedge against the failure of a single large rocket. Rocket Lab's next rocket, Neutron, is expected to surpass the Falcon 9 ...

Rocket Lab said its Electron vehicle failed late in ... it will more easily bounce back from this failure. But for the In-Space Missions start-up, the Electron's loss is a major disappointment.

If Apple or Google ever launched a gadget product that failed, the last thing you might expect to see is either tech company publicly consoling the other. When it comes to the orbital rocket ...

Sir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has shut down, just months after a major mission failure. It comes weeks ... Rival start-up Rocket Lab has bought most of Virgin Orbit's ...

Rocket Lab adds a last-minute mission ... of the booster anomaly before resuming Vulcan flights. Despite the nozzle failure, the rocket continued its climb and ended up reaching its planned ...

Despite the nozzle failure, the rocket continued its climb and ended ... navigation satellite into orbit for the Air Force Research Laboratory. The next mission, named USSF-87, will deploy two ...