The Oettinger Rockets were found as the first team of the club Gotha e.V. which was founded on 2 July 1998. The team started in the Bezirksliga and promoted to the fourth tier 1.Regionliga in 2005. In the 2009–10 season, the Rockets was promoted to the national third level, the
ProB. In the 2011–12 season, Gotha was crowned ProB champions and the team was promoted to the second tier level
ProA. Since the 2016–17 season, the Rockets play in the
Messe Erfurt, which has a capacity of 3,236 people. On 3 May 2017, the team earned promotion to the
Basketball Bundesliga by beating
Niners Chemnitz in the semi-finals of the ProA to claim a promotion spot. Rockets Gotha started the 2017–18 season as "Oettinger Rockets", named after its main sponsor
Oettinger Brauerei. However, from January 2018 the main sponsor left and the club would be simply known as "Rockets". In its debut season in the BBL, Rockets ended in the 17th place and relegated back to the ProA. In July 2018, the organization announced that it was not able to play in the professional ProA league. The same year the second team of Rockets managed to win the 1. Regional League South-East and promoted to the
ProB. Due to loss of the main sponsor
Oettinger Brauerei the team decided to sell their ProB licence to Basketball Löwen Erfurt and continue to compete in the 2nd Regional League under the name of BiG (Basketball in Gotha) Rockets Gotha. ==Honours==