Rocket Lab Acquires Geost (Parent Holding Company) from Lightridge Solutions

Rocket Lab Acquires Geost, LLC From LightRidge Solutions (ATL Partners) and Forms Trident Solutions Defense Electronics Platform

August 12, 2025

Aerospace & Defense

ATL Partners completed the sale of Geost, LLC (a subsidiary of its portfolio company LightRidge Solutions) to Rocket Lab USA, Inc. Rocket Lab is acquiring Geost’s electro-optical/infrared sensor technologies while ATL combines LightRidge’s remaining divisions—Trident Systems and Ophir Corporation—into the defense electronics platform Trident Solutions.

ATL Partners Acquires Majority Stake in GEOST

August 18, 2021

Aerospace & Defense

New York-based private equity firm ATL Partners has made a majority investment in GEOST, a Tucson, Arizona designer and integrator of small-to-medium electro-optical/infrared sensors for national security space missions. ATL plans to scale GEOST through organic growth, new production capacity and strategic bolt-on acquisitions to expand the company's product capabilities in space domain awareness and related subsystems.

Rocket Lab Acquires Optical Support, Inc. (OSI)

February 26, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

Rocket Lab has completed the acquisition of Optical Support, Inc. (OSI), a designer and manufacturer of custom high-precision optical and optomechanical instruments. The deal is intended to strengthen Rocket Lab’s vertically integrated payload and national security capability by adding optics and optomechanical capacity and production scale.

Rocket Lab Acquires SolAero Holdings

December 13, 2021

Aerospace & Defense

Rocket Lab signed a definitive agreement to acquire SolAero Holdings, Inc. for $80 million in cash, to add SolAero’s space solar power products and precision aerospace structures to its space systems business. The transaction was later closed, with SolAero’s leadership expected to continue under its President and CEO, Brad Clevenger.

General Atomics Acquires EO Vista, LLC

September 15, 2023

Aerospace & Defense

General Atomics has acquired EO Vista, LLC, an Acton, Massachusetts-based developer of electro-optical and infrared sensor payloads, and will integrate the business into its General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) group. EO Vista currently supplies the EO/IR weather sensor payload for a U.S. Space Force contract to deliver an EO/IR Weather System (EWS) satellite; the acquisition expands GA-EMS's sensor and space systems capabilities.

Rocket Lab Acquires Advanced Solutions, Inc.

October 12, 2021

Aerospace & Defense

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. completed the acquisition of Advanced Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a Colorado-based aerospace engineering firm specializing in flight software, mission simulation, and GNC, for $40 million plus up to $5.5 million of performance-based earnouts. The deal expands Rocket Lab's Space Systems capabilities and integrates ASI's proven flight software and GNC expertise into Rocket Lab's Photon and broader spacecraft offerings.