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Rocket Lab (RKLB) has gained 9.5% over the last five trading days, while the S&P 500 added 0.6%. A week like that pulls money in. The stock is still about 55% below its 52-week high. The run is not the question. What matters for your money is what this stock does to your portfolio when the market moves, because it travels about four times as far as the index in both directions.

NASA just awarded SpaceX another satellite launch, and the ripple effects for small-launch rivals are real. Before you buy either name for a retirement portfolio, the valuation math tells a story Wall Street often glosses over.

Rocket Lab raised $1.944 billion for its $8 billion Iridium acquisition, while advancing Neutron hardware testing in Virginia.

SpaceX’s reported decision to restrict new Falcon 9 commercial bookings beyond 2028 could create an opening for Neutron as Starship takes over future traffic.

Rocket Lab (NasdaqGS: RKLB) completed a US$1.94b equity offering to fund its planned acquisition of Iridium Communications. The company plans to cancel a previously arranged bridge loan, replacing that short term debt financing with new share capital. Management aims to combine Iridium's recurring satellite communications revenue with Rocket Lab's existing launch and space systems operations. The fully funded Iridium equity deal and bridge loan cancellation change Rocket Lab's balance sheet...

Palantir climbs 30 places and Rocket Lab 34 places in the Roundtable 100 this week.

Rocket Lab has spent the past year quietly transforming into something Wall Street has yet to fully price in, and the gap between what investors see and what the company is actually building may be the most important story in the space sector right now.

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) has a market cap of about $2 trillion, but its stock doesn’t trade like it. Over the past 22 trading sessions, the gap between SpaceX’s daily high and low averaged 4.53% of its closing price. That...

SpaceX stock is surging on a firm date for Starship's most ambitious test yet, but whether the milestone justifies the valuation depends on a single high-stakes question the vehicle has never answered.

RKLB expands its spacecraft component business with avionics, radios and batteries, extending its role across the space supply chain.

Golden Dome’s space-based interceptor program reached “flight-ready hardware,” with an integrated demonstration targeted for 2028.

Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) closed at $63.55 in the latest trading session, marking a +1.6% move from the prior day.

On Monday, the U.S. Space Force confirmed the existence of space-based weapons, though what exactly is in space is classified. The news represents a milestone in military technology. Space is the new strategic high ground.

One major risk surrounding Rocket Lab's expansion just disappeared

Rocket Lab stock gains as the company raises $1.944 billion via an ATM offering to fund Iridium deal. Here’s how you should play RKLB shares at current levels.

The rocket launch and satellite specialist just reached an important milestone in its historic acquisition.

Star Wars is no longer science fiction. On Monday, the U.S. Space Force confirmed the existence of space-based weapons, though what is in space is classified. The Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) stock is rising 3% to $64.14 in Tuesday morning trading as investors respond to progress on the company’s planned acquisition of Iridium Communications. Rocket Lab completed a $1.944 billion at-the-market equity offering, giving Rocket Lab enough financing to cover the cash portion of the roughly $8 billion transaction and related costs. […]

The company completed its $1.94 billion at-the-market (ATM) stock offering, selling about 29.3 million shares.

The slower-growing Iridium business is expected to initially dilute Rocket Lab’s nearly 100% annual growth rate.

Despite record insider selling, Rocket Lab draws heavy institutional buying and Moderate Buy analyst ratings, backed by strong revenue growth, a $2.3 billion backlog, and the upcoming Neutron rocket launch.

Rocket Lab Corporation recently filed a formal protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over NASA’s Mars Telecommunications Network contract award to Blue Origin, arguing the decision breached eligibility rules and misjudged its proposal. The challenge puts a spotlight on how procurement processes shape access to large government space programs and underscores Rocket Lab’s ambitions to compete for flagship interplanetary infrastructure work. We’ll now examine how Rocket Lab’s...

Eligible bidders needed prior NASA funding for a Mars Sample Return study and a proposal featuring a separately launched telecommunications orbiter.

The number of space companies keeps growing, and this new entrant is a bigger threat to Rocket Lab than to SpaceX.

Several Ark funds recently bought the dip in Meta and Rocket Lab.

The biggest catalyst is still ahead for investors

Rocket Lab stock gains on a bullish Raymond James research note. Here’s why analyst Brian Gesuale recommends owning RKLB shares.

Rocket Lab and AST SpaceMobile both want to disrupt SpaceX, both reported earnings the same night, and both stocks just took a beating. Only one of them fits a diversified portfolio right now.

Rocket Lab's stock has been hammered over the past month even as its backlog swells and a transformative acquisition looms, and that tension between near-term pain and long-term potential is exactly where the most interesting price setups tend to emerge.

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) launched its 16th Electron mission of 2026 on September 11, carrying an Earth observation satellite into orbit for an undisclosed customer. The mission, named “Happily Ever Faster,” lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 3:28 p.