## Filing Overview
**Filing Date**: 2021-09-24
**Type of Filing**: [[Filing Definitions#Form S-1|Form S-1]]
**Registrant**: Rocket Lab USA, Inc.
**Jurisdiction of Incorporation**: Delaware
**Securities Offered**: Common Stock ($0.0001 par value per share)
**Shares Registered for Resale**: 417,404,393 shares of common stock
**Shares Offered by Rocket Lab**: 16,266,666 shares of common stock underlying warrants
**Warrants Offered by Selling Securityholders**: 5,600,000 private placement warrants
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## Notes
- The **Form S-1** registers common stock and warrants for resale by existing security holders following the business combination with Vector Acquisition Corporation.
- The **Business Combination** was completed on **August 25, 2021**, where Rocket Lab merged with Vector and became a publicly traded company.
- A total of **417,404,393 shares of common stock** are registered for resale, including shares issued through PIPE financing, stock options, restricted stock units, and earnout shares.
- Rocket Lab will receive up to **$187.1 million** from the exercise of warrants, but no proceeds from the resale of shares by selling securityholders.
- The registered securities are listed on Nasdaq under symbols **RKLB** (common stock) and **RKLBW** (warrants).
- Key participants include **PIPE investors** and former equity holders of Legacy Rocket Lab.
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## Filing
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