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Space company building Electron and Neutron launch vehicles plus satellite components and spacecraft, serving commercial and government customers.
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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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