{
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "cite_as": "Nozzle4, https://nozzle4.com/data/",
 "note": "Compiled by Nozzle4 from the sources linked on each row. The facts belong to their sources; the compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0, so use it with a credit and a link.",
 "slug": "rocket-lab",
 "name": "Rocket Lab",
 "status": "listed",
 "status_label": "Listed",
 "segment": "Aerospace, defence and energy buyers",
 "page": "https://nozzle4.com/companies/rocket-lab/",
 "listing": {
  "exchange": "NASDAQ",
  "ticker": "RKLB",
  "tradingview_symbol": "NASDAQ:RKLB"
 },
 "headquarters": "Long Beach, California, United States",
 "founded": 2006,
 "ownership": "Listed on Nasdaq (RKLB)",
 "technologies": [
  "L-PBF",
  "Rutherford engine",
  "Archimedes engine"
 ],
 "description": "A launch company that printed its engines from the start. Rutherford, the first 3D printed electric turbopump-fed engine, flies nine to a rocket on Electron, and the larger Archimedes engine for Neutron is mostly printed too.",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-23",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "2013",
   "title": "Begins developing the Rutherford engine, the first 3D printed, electric turbopump-fed rocket engine, and fires it for the first time the same year",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.voxelmatters.com/rocket-lab-celebrates-100th-rutherford-engine/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jan 2018",
   "title": "A 3D printed Rutherford engine launches Electron into orbit",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://3dprint.com/175765/rocket-lab-electron-launches/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jul 2019",
   "title": "Completes its 100th Rutherford engine, 70 of them already flown, and expands its Huntington Beach printing facilities",
   "detail": "Each Electron first stage needs nine engines; the expansion targeted 200 more within 12 months.",
   "source": "https://www.voxelmatters.com/rocket-lab-celebrates-100th-rutherford-engine/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jun 2024",
   "title": "Completes the first Archimedes engine for Neutron and begins a test campaign at NASA Stennis",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/rocket-lab-completes-archimedes-engine-build-begins-engine-test-campaign/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Aug 2024",
   "title": "Says about 90 percent of the Archimedes engine mass is 3D printed material, with the engines now in production",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://x.com/RocketLab/status/1826811394911777089"
  },
  {
   "date": "May 2026",
   "title": "Completes its 1,000th Rutherford engine at Long Beach, with a target of about 200 a year, up from roughly one a month in 2017",
   "detail": "Printers named are from EOS, Nikon SLM Solutions and Renishaw.",
   "source": "https://www.voxelmatters.com/rocket-lab-rolls-the-1000th-rutherford-engine-off-its-production-line/"
  }
 ]
}