[2] While En Vogue reteamed with their founders Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy to work on the majority of their seventh studio album Electric Café (2018), the duo suggested them to record additional tracks.

Soul Bounce critic Ken Hamm described "Rocket" as "contemporary [...] sexy little number [...] about reaching a mutual climax with your lover using the metaphor of space travel [...] The ladies easily take the listener there with their celestial voices.

"[4] PennState's CommRadio editor Scott Perdue found that the song "has a more sensual and seductive sound, very much reminiscent of En Vogue’s earlier work" and displayed "a more powerful performance from the trio.

"[5] Spectrum Culture's Dominic Griffin named "Rocket" an "assured, silky jam [with] some truly stirring vocal harmonies" as well as obe the "album's most exciting songs.

"[6] Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian considered "Rocket" a "lush, straight-up sex jam,"[7] while AllMusic editor Andy Kellman called the song a "coasting bliss-out" and ranked it among his favorite tracks on parent album Electric Café.

Filmed in the El Mirage Lake bed in California, the clip features several shots of Terry Ellis, Rhona Bennett, and Cindy Herron performing in front of a digitally altered Mojave Desert.