Rocket Lab (RKLB) Stock: Space Force Contract, Launch Record, Neutron Timeline and Analyst Forecasts Ahead of Monday’s Market Open
New York — It’s 4:26 a.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. U.S. stock markets are closed for the weekend, so Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB) is sitting where it last finished on Friday’s post-holiday tape. That timing matters, because this is one of those late-December setups where headline-driven momentum collides with thin liquidity. On Friday, Wall Street ended a light-volume session near record levels but fractionally lower, as traders took a breather during the “Santa Claus rally” window, according to Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at Carson Group. Reuters Against that backdrop, Rocket Lab has been one of the