Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium
The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.
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Blue Origin still doesn’t know why its New Glenn rocket blew up last month
But the company is still claiming that New Glenn will return to flight this year.
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Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force
True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the U.S. military.
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Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil’s new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
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Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine
Build a new kind of rocket engine and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself, and other big-name investors, The New York Times reported.
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China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China’s state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
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SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market’s appetite for the company’s “fly, fail, fix” approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
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Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters.”
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A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era
Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
