{"id":12491,"date":"2025-12-20T00:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/rocket-lab-wins-another-defense-related-space-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:28","slug":"rocket-lab-wins-another-defense-related-space-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/rocket-lab-wins-another-defense-related-space-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab wins another defense-related space contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rocket Lab has won an $816 million contract &mdash; its largest to date &mdash; with the U.S. Space Development Agency as the company continues to diversify beyond its &ldquo;rocket company&rdquo; label.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said Friday that its subsidiary, Rocket Lab USA, was awarded a prime contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to design and manufacture 18 satellites. The satellites will be equipped with advanced missile warning, tracking, and defense sensors for the agency&rsquo;s Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This contract is separate from an existing $515 million award to deliver satellites for the SDA&rsquo;s Transport Layer-Beta Tranche 2 program. That program aims to provide a satellite communications network in low Earth orbit that sends encrypted, low-latency data to the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, Rocket Lab has SDA contracts valued at more than $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rocket Lab has expanded into defense and has more recently said it would bid for multibillion-dollar Department of Defense initiatives like Golden Dome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Rocket Lab wins another defense-related space contract<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab has won an $816 million contract &mdash; its largest to date &mdash; with the U.S. Space Development Agency as the company continues to diversify beyond its &ldquo;rocket company&rdquo; label. The company said Friday that its subsidiary, Rocket Lab USA, was awarded a prime contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to design and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/rocket-lab-wins-another-defense-related-space-contract\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Rocket Lab wins another defense-related space contract&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}