juliensimon/rocket-lab-launches

Rocket Lab Launch Log

Credit: NASA

Part of a dataset collection on Hugging Face.

Dataset description

Complete Rocket Lab launch manifest — past and upcoming missions flown or planned by Peter Beck's small-launch company, sourced from The Space Devs Launch Library 2 API.

Covers Electron (small-lift two-stage rocket using Rutherford 3D-printed engines, operational since 2017 from Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand and from LC-2 at Wallops Island, Virginia) and the forthcoming Neutron medium-lift partially reusable rocket. Each row captures mission identifier, vehicle, launch time, status, pad location, target orbit, and a free-text mission description. Includes the full Electron history from the May 2017 'It's a Test' debut through the current manifest of confirmed upcoming Electron and Neutron customer missions.

This dataset is designed as a counterpart to juliensimon/spacex-launches, juliensimon/blue-origin-launches, and juliensimon/ula-launches, enabling head-to-head comparison of launch cadence, success rates, and vehicle utilization across the major commercial-launch providers. Particularly useful for tracking the small-launch market segment that Electron pioneered, the rapid expansion of NASA Earth-science and NRO smallsat constellation contracts, and the upcoming Neutron entry into the medium-lift market positioning Rocket Lab against SpaceX Falcon 9.

This dataset is suitable for tabular classification, time-series forecasting tasks.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Sample	Null %
launch_id	str	The Space Devs UUID for the launch	f8e04552-1dfa-4607-8bba-969b2988c598	0.0%
name	str	Launch display name (e.g. 'Electron | Capstone', 'Neutron | Escapade')	Electron | It's a Test	0.0%
mission_name	str	Mission identifier or customer-facing name (e.g. 'It's a Test', 'Still Testing', 'There And Back Again', 'CAPSTONE')	It's a Test	2.3%
rocket	str	Launch vehicle configuration name (Electron, Neutron, HASTE for hypersonic test variant)	Electron	0.0%
net_utc	datetime64[us, UTC]	No Earlier Than launch time (UTC). For completed launches this is the actual liftoff time; for upcoming it is the target	2017-05-25 04:20:00+00:00	0.0%
window_start_utc	datetime64[us, UTC]	Start of the launch window (UTC)	2017-05-25 01:00:00+00:00	0.0%
window_end_utc	datetime64[us, UTC]	End of the launch window (UTC)	2017-05-25 05:00:00+00:00	0.0%
status	str	Launch status: 'Launch Successful', 'Launch Failure', 'Partial Failure', 'Go for Launch', 'To Be Determined', 'To Be Confirmed', etc.	Launch Failure	0.0%
status_abbrev	str	Short status code: 'Success', 'Failure', 'Go', 'TBD', 'TBC', 'Hold'	Failure	0.0%
mission_type	str	Mission category (Communications, Earth Science, Astrophysics, Technology, Government/Top Secret, Lunar, Resupply, etc.)	Test Flight	2.3%
mission_description	str	Free-text description of the mission objective and customer payload	This is the first test flight of the ...	2.3%
orbit	str	Target orbit abbreviation (LEO=Low Earth Orbit, SSO=Sun-Synchronous Orbit, GTO=Geostationary Transfer Orbit, TLI=Trans-Lunar Injection, MEO, etc.) where applicable	LEO	2.3%
pad_name	str	Launch pad name (e.g. 'Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B', 'LC-2')	Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A	0.0%
pad_location	str	Launch complex / site name (e.g. 'Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand', 'Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, VA')	Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Pe...	0.0%
pad_country	str	Launch pad country code (NZL for Mahia, USA for Wallops)	NZL	0.0%
pad_latitude	float64	Launch pad geodetic latitude (deg)	-39.262833	0.0%
pad_longitude	float64	Launch pad geodetic longitude (deg)	177.864469	0.0%
year	int64	Launch year (integer, derived from net_utc)	2017	0.0%

Quick stats

• 130 Rocket Lab launches (87 past, 43 upcoming)
• 128 Electron + 2 Neutron + 0 HASTE flights tracked
• 95.4% success rate across completed missions
• Manifest spans 2017 through 2029

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("juliensimon/rocket-lab-launches", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()

from datasets import load_dataset

rl = load_dataset("juliensimon/rocket-lab-launches", split="train").to_pandas()
sx = load_dataset("juliensimon/spacex-launches", split="train").to_pandas()

# Annual cadence by rocket family
print(rl.groupby(["year", "rocket"]).size().unstack(fill_value=0).tail(10))

# Electron success rate by year
import numpy as np
electron = rl[rl["rocket"] == "Electron"]
electron_done = electron[electron["status_abbrev"].isin(["Success", "Failure", "Partial Failure"])]
yearly = electron_done.groupby("year").apply(
    lambda g: 100 * (g["status_abbrev"] == "Success").mean()
).rename("electron_success_pct")
print(yearly)

# Confirmed upcoming Neutron manifest
neutron = rl[rl["rocket"] == "Neutron"].sort_values("net_utc")
print(neutron[["mission_name", "net_utc", "status", "orbit", "pad_location"]])

Data source

https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/

Update schedule

Daily at 09:15 UTC via GitHub Actions

Related datasets

• juliensimon/spacex-launches

• juliensimon/blue-origin-launches

• juliensimon/ula-launches

• juliensimon/space-launch-log

• juliensimon/launch-vehicles

• juliensimon/constellation-census

• juliensimon/gcat

• juliensimon/gcat-satcat

• juliensimon/launch-cost

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About the author

Created by Julien Simon — AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital. Part of the Space Datasets collection.

Citation

@dataset{rocket_lab_launches,
  title = {Rocket Lab Launch Log},
  author = {juliensimon},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/rocket-lab-launches},
  publisher = {Hugging Face}
}

License

CC-BY-4.0