Rocket Lab Just Bet $8 Billion That It Can Take on SpaceX — And It Might Actually Work
THE STORY Rocket Lab announced on June 29 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Iridium Communications in an
THE STORY Rocket Lab announced on June 29 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Iridium Communications in an
THE STORY On July 2, 2026, a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket air-launched from a modified L-1011 aircraft over the
THE STORY On July 1, 2026, the U.S. Space Force and space defense contractor True Anomaly announced the successful completion of
THE STORY On June 30, 2026, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the selection of three companies — Astrobotic Technology, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive
THE STORY With the successful launch of its Leo Atlas 8 mission on July 2, 2026 — the final Atlas V rocket to
THE STORY SpaceX is pushing hard to achieve a Starship launch from Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A this year, with
THE STORY SpaceX's Starlink 10-50 mission, launched July 4 from Space Launch Complex 40, carried two semiconductor manufacturing test
THE STORY One month after the catastrophic explosion of a New Glenn rocket that severely damaged Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral,
THE STORY Skyroot Aerospace has announced a launch window of July 12 to August 4 for the debut flight of Vikram-1,
THE STORY Five-month-old startup Orbital has filed with the FCC for permission to deploy up to 100,000 data center
THE STORY The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has officially begun its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a ten-
THE STORY For the first time since SpaceX's record-breaking IPO last month, Wall Street analysts are initiating coverage of