[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> [[Hardware]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> Flatellite ## Summary **Announced February 27 2025** (🔗[[Rocket Lab Announces Flatellite|Article]]), Ideal for high operational duty cycle telecommunications, as well as remote sensing applications. A scalable, long-life, high-power, stackable satellite, Flatellite enables secure, low-latency, high-speed connectivity and remote sensing capability for national security, defense, and commercial markets. Flatellite employs a low-profile, stackable structure to maximize the number of satellites that can be deployed per launch and has seamless integration with Rocket Lab’s own Neutron rocket. [Rocket Lab Spacecraft Page](https://www.rocketlabusa.com/space-systems/spacecraft/) [[Peter Beck]] on how Rocket Lab intends to utilize Flatellite in the building their own constellation(s): >[!quote] Sir Peter Beck, Q4 Earnings Call >*"the Flatellite is more than just a new product development to serve our customers’ ever evolving needs though. It’s a bold, strategic move towards completing the final step of Rocket Lab’s ultimate vision of truly becoming an end to end space company and operating its own constellation and delivering services from space."* - [[2024 Q4]] ## Production 104 - 365 satellites per year >[!quote] Sir Peter Beck, Q4 Earnings Call Q&A >*"couple of satellites a week up to a satellite a day depending on the customer or the opportunity that we go after"* - [[2024 Q4]] ![[Pasted image 20250302165128.png]] ![[Pasted image 20250302165631.png]] ## Notes - [[Peter Beck]] confirmed in a Q&A session that the platform didn't support large aperture [[📦 Payload Types#Earth Observation|Earth Observation]] type applications, but that "But basically everything else it’s super ideal for. "