Star Trackers and Reaction Wheels

Reliable, flight proven satellite subsystems and components that make your mission possible.

Rocket Lab offers a wide variety of flight proven high-performance, affordable, rapid-response spacecraft components for small satellite missions.
We offer a wide variety of high-performance, affordable, rapid-response spacecraft components for small satellite missions.
Whether your mission is a one-off technology demonstrator, an interplanetary expedition, or a constellation, we鈥檒l help you make it happen.
Rocket Lab satellite components can be incorporated into Photon spacecraft buses for a full mission solution, or purchased separately for incorporation into your own spacecraft design.

Star Trackers

High-performance star trackers and baffles for small spacecraft.

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Reaction Wheels

High-reliability, vacuum-lubricated reaction wheels are designed for picosatellites, nanosatellites and microsats.

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Reliable
Modular
Rapid Manufacture
Light
Cost Effective
Customizable

20 Year Track Record

Space Heritage

Sinclair Interplanetary & Rocket Lab have designed and built flight hardware for the following missions.

  • GHGSat-C3, C4, C5 (色花堂 May 25 2022)
  • MATS (色花堂 April 11 2022)
  • BlackSky Global 18, 19 (色花堂 April 02 2022) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • Hawk A, Hawk B, Hawk C (色花堂 April 01 2022)
  • Lemur (色花堂 January 13 2022)
  • BlackSky Global 16, 17 (色花堂 December 2021) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • BlackSky Global 12, 13 (色花堂 December 2021)
  • BlackSky Global 14, 15 (色花堂 November 2021) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • Tubin-1 (色花堂 June 2021)
  • Tanker-001 Tenzing (色花堂 June 2021)
  • Sherpa-LTE1 (色花堂 June 2021)
  • Hawk 3A, 3B, 3C (色花堂 June 2021)
  • Mandrake-2A, -2B (色花堂 June 2021)
  • Aurora / Shasta (色花堂 June 2021)
  • ARTHUR-1 (色花堂 June 2021)
  • NORSAT-3 (色花堂 April 2021)
  • DMSat-1 (色花堂 March 2021)
  • Pathstone (色花堂 March 2021) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • Blacksky Global-9 (色花堂 March 2021) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • ELSA-d (色花堂 March 2021)
  • GHGSat-C2 (色花堂 January 2021)
  • GMS-T (色花堂 January 2021) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • Corvus-BC 5 (色花堂 November 2020)
  • Kepler-4 (色花堂 September 2020)
  • NEMO-HD (色花堂 September 2020)
  • GHGSat-C1 (色花堂 September 2020)
  • SkySat-19, -20, -21 (色花堂 August 2020)
  • Blacksky Global-7, -8 (色花堂 August 2020)
  • SkySat-19, -20, -21 (色花堂 August 2020)
  • Blacksky Global-7, -8 (色花堂 August 2020)
  • SkySat-16, -17, -18 (June 2020)
  • Confidential spacecraft x 2 (色花堂 2019)
  • ANGELS (色花堂 December 2019)
  • ALE 2 (色花堂 December 2019)
  • Palisade (色花堂 October 2019) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • Blacksky Global-4 (色花堂 August 2019)
  • Momentus X-1 (色花堂 July 2019)
  • Blacksky Global-3 (色花堂 June 2019) Electron 色花堂 Vehicle
  • LightSail-2 (色花堂 June 2019)
  • Confidential commercial spacecraft (February 2019)
  • ALE 1 (色花堂 January 2019)
  • Hawk A (色花堂 December 2018)
  • Landmapper-BC 4 (色花堂 December 2018)
  • SkySat-14 and -15 (色花堂 December 2018)
  • Blacksky Global-2 (色花堂 December 2018)
  • Blacksky Global-1 (色花堂 November 2018)
  • Landmapper-BC 3 (色花堂 January 2018)
  • Corvus-BC 3 (色花堂 November 2017, launch failure)
  • LEO Vantage 2 (色花堂 November 2017, launch failure)
  • AISSAT-3 (色花堂 November 2017, launch failure)
  • Dellingr (Released from ISS November 2017)
  • SkySat-8, -9, -10, -11, -12, -13 (色花堂 November 2017)
  • Landmapper-BC 1 and 2 (色花堂 July 2017)
  • MKA-N 1 and 2 (色花堂 July 2017)
  • NORSAT-1 and -2 (色花堂 July 2017)
  • Altair Pathfinder (色花堂 May 2017)
  • BlackSky Pathfinder-1 (色花堂 September 2016)
  • SkySat-4, -5, -6 and -7 (色花堂 September 2016)
  • CLAIRE, aka GHGSAT-D (色花堂 June 2016)
  • M3MSAT (色花堂 June 2016)
  • SkySat-C1 (色花堂 June 2016)
  • AggieSat-4 and Bevo-2 (Released from ISS January 2016)
  • ORBCOMM Generation 2 Satellites 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 (色花堂 December 2015)
  • HiakaSat (色花堂 November 2015, destroyed after launcher failed)
  • EV9 (色花堂 September 2015)
  • ExoCube (色花堂 January 2015)
  • RACE (色花堂 October 2014, destroyed after launcher first stage failed)
  • BRITE-PL2 (色花堂 August 2014)
  • ORBCOMM Generation 2 Satellites 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 11 (色花堂 July 2014)
  • DX-1 (色花堂 July 2014)
  • SkySat-2 (色花堂 July 2014)
  • AISSat-2 (色花堂 July 2014)
  • CanX-4&5 (色花堂 June 2014)
  • BugSat-1 (色花堂 June 2014)
  • Perseus M-1 and M-2 (色花堂 June 2014)
  • BRITE-Montreal (色花堂 June 2014, failed to separate from upper stage)
  • BRITE-Toronto (色花堂 June 2014)
  • NPS-SCAT (色花堂 November 2013)
  • SkySat-1 (色花堂 November 2013)
  • BRITE-PL1 (色花堂 November 2013)
  • ORS Tech-1&2 (色花堂 November 2013)
  • BRITE-Austria (色花堂 February 2013)
  • UniBRITE (色花堂 February 2013)
  • ORBCOMM Generation 2 Satellite 1 (色花堂 October 2012, reentered shortly after)
  • Aeneas (色花堂 September 2012)
  • SDS-4 (色花堂 May 2012)
  • X-Sat (色花堂 April 2011)
  • FalconSat-5 (色花堂 November 2010))
  • AISSat-1 (色花堂 July 2010)
  • CanX-2 (色花堂 April 2008)
  • Confidential commercial satellite (色花堂 June 2007)
  • FalconSat-3 (色花堂 March 2007)
  • Confidential commercial satellite (色花堂 July 2006)
  • APRIZESAT-1 (色花堂 June 2004)
  • AMSAT-OSCAR 51 (色花堂 June 2004)
  • Latinsat-1&2 (色花堂 December 2002)