'Launching Anywhere, Anytime and without Compromise': Rocket Lab Unveils New 'GHOST' Portable Spaceport System
Rocket Lab said the Space Force award could reach $397 million as it adds three dedicated iQPS launches and expands its satellite work.
- On August 4, Rocket Lab secured a contract worth up to $397 million with the U.S. Space Force to provide satellite technologies, while also confirming three additional launches for the Japanese company iQPS.
- The company unveiled its new "Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology" system on Monday, a portable, containerized solution designed to enable launch operations from anywhere in the world.
- Packaged entirely within standard shipping containers, GHOST deploys complete rockets and infrastructure anywhere, with the first site planned for the Pacific Spaceport Complex at Kodiak, Alaska, complementing facilities in New Zealand and Virginia.
- CEO Peter Beck noted during the second-quarter earnings call that GHOST enables deployment "wherever they're needed most," adding the company has "mastered the art of building launch sites" for national security missions.
- Rocket Lab remains on track to deliver its first reusable Neutron rocket to the Virginia launch pad in the fourth quarter of this year, continuing development despite earlier delays.
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'Launching anywhere, anytime and without compromise': Rocket Lab unveils new 'GHOST' portable spaceport system
Rocket Lab plans to start launching even more frequently and flexibly, thanks to a new portable spaceport system called "GHOST."GHOST — short for "Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology" — turns the company's "Electron and HASTE rockets into a launch-anywhere, launch-anytime capability for multi-launch flight campaigns and critical national security missions," Rocket Lab representatives said in a statement today (Aug. 10). "Packaged en…
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Rocket Lab Unveils GHOST Deployable Launch System to Enable Responsive Space Missions Worldwide
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems today unveiled GHOST: a new globally-deployable containerized launch system to enable suborbital and orbital launches from anywhere…
Rocket Lab has developed a modular and transportable launch ramp. In addition, the space company comes to Germany.
Rocket Lab Establishes Rocket Lab Germany to Deliver Sovereign Space and Launch Capabilities to Europe
Rocket Lab has established Rocket Lab Germany GmbH, supporting the potential scaling of the company's satellite and component manufacturing in Germany to provide sovereign space capabilities to Europe. The new subsidiary is intended to not only enable scaled domestic production of satellites and their critical components but also to deliver launch services on Electron and Neutron, ensuring critical European programs have assured access to space.
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