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Space company building Electron and Neutron launch vehicles plus satellite components and spacecraft, serving commercial and government customers.
Rocket Lab has moved Neutron's debut from late 2026 into 2027 after inspectors found voids in a cured carbon-fiber propellant dome. It is the fourth reset of a debut first targeted for 2024.
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Anatolii Papulov of NewOrbit says satellite launch lead times have reached 30 to 36 months, up from about 12 a year ago. The figure is one start-up's experience, though Quilty Space analyst Caleb Henry also calls the shortage a crisis with several causes besides Falcon 9.
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Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital led a $1 billion Series E at roughly $10 billion. The money funds two clean-sheet rockets in parallel: Pathfinder in 2027 and the 14-engine Block 2 in 2029.
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The offer is $54 a share, half of it cash, so about $4bn falls due at a closing the companies expect in mid-2027. Neutron's first-flight hardware is due at the pad in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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Instead of naming the century-old unknown absorber, a team writing in Astrobiology asked how dark the bulk liquid in Venus's cloud droplets has to be, turning a remote-sensing puzzle into a number a laboratory spectrometer can check.
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The first HIBLEO-4 tranche flew on August 15 after delays MDA Space blamed on key suppliers. Apple's SOS button and Amazon's $11.57bn purchase both sit downstream of an integration queue.
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Eight months after a failed engine reignition destroyed its first attempt, LandSpace landed Zhuque-3's stainless-steel first stage in Gansu. The fix cycle is the story, not the milestone.
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A Seeking Alpha analyst argues the order book is real and the multiple is not. The sequencing is the problem: equity issuance now, Iridium integration and Neutron revenue later.
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