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Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations
Welcome to Edition 7.33 of the Rocket Report! Phew, what a week for Rocket Lab! The company released a bevy of announcements in conjunction with its quarterly earnings report Thursday. Rocket Lab is spending a lot of money to develop the medium-lift Neutron rocket, and as we’ll discuss below, a rocket landing platform and a new…
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Skylo Secures $30M Funding to Expand Direct-to-Device Satellite Connectivity
Skylo, the company powering commercially available, seamless ‘direct-to-device’ satellite connectivity, announced a $30 million oversubscribed funding round led by NGP Capital. Westly Group joined the round and existing investors Intel Capital, BMW i Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Next47, and others also participated. The company expanded its commercial coverage area with the addition of Brazil, Australia,…
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Globalstar Beats Guidance With 12% Growth in 2024
Globalstar reported record revenue and 12% year-over-year revenue growth in 2024. Revenue was a record $250.3 million, which exceeded the high end of the company’s revenue guidance. Globalstar said this was due to an increase in service revenue, partially offset by a decline in revenue from subscriber equipment sales. Total revenue was $250.3 million. This…
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SES Delivers MEO Global Services to NATO Under NSPA Contract
Following a 2024 contract award from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), SES started providing Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Global Services to Luxembourg and U.S. governments via its O3b mPOWER constellation. Known as MEO Global Services (MGS), the contract awarded within NSPA’s Global Commercially Contracted SATCOM Support Partnership (GCC SATCOM SP) initiated by the…
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Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
There’s a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey’s character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership spinning out of control. The protagonist rises to the challenge with a polished piece of piloting and successfully links up with his objective. Real life, of course, isn’t quite this dramatic. Slow down that spin to a…
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, AstroForge’s Odin face post-deployment challenges
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, named Athena, is prepared for encapsulation inside SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings. Beneath the lander are rideshare payloads from Epic Aerospace (front), AstroForge (right), and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (behind). Image: SpaceX via Intuitive Machines Two spacecraft that launched as rideshare payloads on Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission are dealing with post-deployment…
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Rocket Lab Q4: Record Revenue, Neutron Delay, and a New Constellation Sat Offering
Rocket Lab posted record revenue in 2024 with 78% year-over-year growth, but also pushed its plans for the first Neutron launch to the second half of 2025. Rocket Lab reported full year financials on Feb. 27, along with a new eight-launch deal with Japanese company iQPS and a new satellite offering called Flatellite geared toward…
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Blue Origin Reveals NS-31 Crew For New Shepard’s 11th Human Flight
Blue Origin announced the six people flying on its NS-31 mission. The crew includes Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez, who brought the mission together. She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share…
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Chang’e-6 samples provide evidence suggesting global “magma ocean” on early moon
A researcher with the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, prepares the lunar samples collected by the Chang’e-6 mission at the institute in Beijing, capital of China, on Feb. 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Yu Fei) BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) — A new study of the lunar samples collected by China’s Chang’e-6 mission has verified the…
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Teledyne Launches Two Imaging Sensors in Sun-Synchronous Orbit NASA Explorer Missions
Teledyne Technologies, a leading provider of advanced imaging solutions, is proud to announce that sensors from Teledyne Space Imaging will play a key role in two prestigious NASA explorer missions that are ready to launch this month. Both missions launch on the same rocket on 28 February 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA.…