Rocket Lab Secures Largest-Ever Electron Commercial Deal:
The contract is Rocket Lab’s largest commercial Electron deal and raises Synspective’s total planned Electron missions to 47, the companies said.
- Rocket Lab Corporation announced on September 30 a multi-year agreement with Tokyo-based Earth observation company Synspective for 20 Electron missions, marking the largest commercial launch contract in Rocket Lab's history.
- Synspective has been one of Electron's earliest customers, and Sir Peter Beck, Rocket Lab founder and CEO, attributed the partnership to proven orbital precision and reliable launch cadence.
- The contract brings total Electron missions for Synspective to 47, the most of any Rocket Lab launch customer, while the company's launch backlog now exceeds 100 missions.
- Scheduled annually from 2028 through 2031, Dr. Motoyuki Arai, Synspective founder and CEO, stated the deal provides "long-term certainty" for constellation expansion imaging Earth day or night.
- As global launch capacity remains bottlenecked, Rocket Lab offers a "proven alternative" delivering reliable launch for constellation deployment and missile defense missions worldwide.
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Rocket Lab Secures Largest-Ever Electron Commercial Deal: 20-Launch Contract for Synspective
LONG BEACH, Calif., Sept. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has signed a multi-year launch agreement for 20 new…
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Rocket Lab Signs 20-Launch Electron Deal With Synspective Through 2031
Japanese Earth observation company Synspective has signed an agreement with Rocket Lab for 20 dedicated Electron launches between 2028 and 2031, securing launch capacity for the expansion of its StriX synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation. The deal represents Rocket Lab’s largest commercial Electron launch agreement to date and brings the total number of Electron missions contracted for Synspective to 47.
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