Rocket Lab Unveils GHOST ‘Launch-Anywhere’ Rocket 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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Rocket Lab unveils GHOST ‘launch-anywhere’ rocket system
Rocket Lab has unveiled a containerized launch system designed to fly its Electron and HASTE rockets from new locations, starting with a two-pad complex in Alaska in 2027. Announced on August 10, 2026, GHOST (short for Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology) packages rockets, launch infrastructure, ground support equipment, and range control systems inside standard shipping containers. Rocket Lab said the modular system could be shi…
'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…
Rocket Lab builds deployable infrastructure for Electron launches
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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…
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