GHOST

Stand up Launch Complex 4 at the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska (Kodiak), the first deployment site for Rocket Lab's newly unveiled GHOST containerized Deployable Launch System, under the $266M Space Force RSLP contract for 12 HASTE missile-defense test launches (with an option for six more). LC-4 will add two pads, bringing Rocket Lab's total to six pads company-wide, complementing Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand and Launch Complexes 2 and 3 in Virginia. Guidance given alongside the August 10, 2026 GHOST unveiling points to a suborbital operational debut in 2027, later than the 'no earlier than end of 2026' timeline given when the RSLP contract was announced in July 2026. No later public construction or pad-ready update has been published as of September 13, 2026.

Turn a record $2.36B of backlog (as of Q2 2026) into higher Electron and HASTE flight tempo across constellation, agency, national-security, and hypersonic missions; Rocket Lab guided to another record revenue quarter in Q3 2026 and reported more than $1B in additional new contracts signed since the quarter closed. The new GHOST containerized launch system, unveiled August 10, 2026 with its first site at Kodiak, Alaska, is aimed directly at expanding cadence for responsive and national-security missions.