Rocket Lab announces US investment expanded for national security programs and the manufacture of semiconductors

Long Beach, California – August 22, 2025 – Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “The Company”), a world leader in launch services and space systems, announced today that it stimulated its American investments to extend semiconductor manufacturing capacities and ensure the security of the supply chain for space-level and electro-optical sensors for missions national security space. The Trump Administration will support these investments with a scholarship of $ 23.9 million through the Ministry of Commerce, which is part of the Chips and Science Act which ensures American leadership in the technology of semiconductors of space quality.

In a strategic response to the growing demand for a robust interior supply chain of space quality solar cells and electro-optical sensors for spacecrafts and satellites, capital investments in Rocket Lab in the next five years should strengthen the position of the company market as a manufacturer of final satellites, a supplier of end-to-end. commercial and national. Rocket Lab is one of the only two companies in the United States that specialize in the production of semiconductors with high efficiency, hardened in radiation and spatial quality.

Rocket Lab’s investment is based on the company’s existing American expansion plans for its Space Systems products alongside an acquisition of 275 million Dollars from Geost, an electro-optical charge supplier based in Tucson, Arizona and northern Virginia. Combined, these investments of several hundred dollars will strengthen the industrial basis of American semiconductors and will invigorate industry innovation for American trade and national satellite missions.

Thanks to these investments, Rocket Lab provides:

• Double production capacity of composed semiconductors and space quality solar cells, from 20,000 platforms to almost 35,000 tranches per month;
• Provide manufacturers of spacecraft and the larger aerospace industry with access to semiconductor and electro-optical technologies produced nationally;
• Expand its ability to quickly provide integrated spaceship systems built for American national security purposes; And
• Support economic growth in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, Mississippi, Arizona and northern Virginia because it extends its workforce based in the United States to more than 2,000 employees.

The vice-president of Rocket Lab space systems, Brad Clevenger, said: “Our leadership in semiconductor technologies manufactured in the United States is built on more than 25 years of excellence in engineering and in new-mexic. These latest investments will expand this production capacity, strengthen supply chains, create new jobs and develop economic opportunities through the states in which we will operate – and are additional examples of the space of the Rocket Lab Industry. “

“This administration takes historical measures to encourage companies like Rocket Lab to invest in American ingenuity and innovation,” said US Secretary to Trade Howard Lux. “Rocket Lab’s investment will help cement our domination in space while expanding opportunities for workers across the country.”

The solar cells of Rocket Lab propelled the space missions defining the industry, in particular the James Webb space telescope, the artemis Lunar explorations of NASA, the helicopter of ingenuity Mars and the March Insight Lander, etc. – highlighting the company’s pivotal role in spatial innovation and security of the United States supply chains.

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Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is a spatial company from start to finish with an established experience in the success of the mission. We provide reliable launch services, the manufacture of satellites, the components of space vessels and orbit management solutions that make it faster, easier and more affordable to access the space. Based in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Orbital Electron Small Orbital launch vehicle, a family of spatial vessels experienced in flight, and the company is developing the large neutrons launch vehicle for the deployment of the constellation. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, the Rocket Lab electron launch vehicle has become the second most frequently launched launch launched per year and has delivered more than 190 satellites to orbit for organizations in the private and public sector, allowing operations in terms of national security, scientific research, attenuation of space debris, earth observation, climate surveillance and communication. Rocket Lab’s family of spaceships was selected to support NASA’s missions on the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus. Rocket Lab has three launch ramps on two launch sites, including two launching ramps on a private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a third launch pad in Virginia. To find out more, visit www.rocketlabcorp.com.

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