Company overview

Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC) by Rocket Lab is a Maryland-based aerospace hardware company delivering mechanical separation systems and satellite dispensers with 100% mission success.For more than 20 years, PSC’s Lightband separation systems have been used to separate satellites from rockets. Valuing reliability, PSC's work has enabled customers to lower their mission costs and streamline payload integration time from days to just minutes. PSC’s fully-encapsulated Canisterized Satellite Dispensers (CSD) are a reliable and cost-effective means to deploy small satellites. The CSD's unique design minimizes payload damage risk and eliminates the need for heavy or complicated interface structures between satellites and the launch vehicle.Acquired by Rocket Lab in 2021, PSC's Lightbands and CSDs complement Rocket Lab's space hardware offerings. Together, Rocket Lab and PSC are building on their record of success and reliability to deliver an end-to-end solution for the space industry.To learn more, visit www.rocketlabusa.com/space-systems/separation-systems/
Founded in 1998
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
16 employees

Salaries

Typical salary range

$130,000 – $170,000

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People

Hiring activity

Open marketing jobs over time

4 open now

Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount -11.1% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$2B

Last raise

Grant, 3 months ago

Funding history

Dec 2025

Grant Rocket Lab

Sep 2025

Post IPO Equity Rocket Lab · $750M

Nov 2024

Grant Rocket Lab · $23.9M

Jun 2024

Grant Rocket Lab · $23.9M

Feb 2024

Post IPO Debt Rocket Lab · $120M

Feb 2024

Post IPO Debt Rocket Lab · $355M

Audience

Monthly website visitors
36.4K
Month over month+48.7%
Quarter over quarter-10.6%
Top sourceSearch (43.2%)
Ad budget per month$0.0
Average search rank39.5
Traffic source mix
Search
43.2%
Direct
41%
Referral
9.4%
Social
4.7%
Paid referral
1.1%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

1.1K

12-mo growth

Monthly growth

+29.3%

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