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Rocket Lab is laser-focused on protecting and expanding margins. The company has improved its GAAP gross margins from -3% in 2021 to 35% today as it scales and grows through space systems acquisitions. The second-most-prolific commercial launcher has grown its space systems division to 74% of revenue, tucking in a number of high-margin component businesses […]
Some of that spectrum still sits in legacy hands, ripe for acquisition.
We finally have an answer for why Maxar Space Systems changed its name to Lanteris.
Three weeks ago, NVIDIA sparked controversy by posting a graphic of Starcloud’s massive space-based data centers, with their absurd-looking 4km solar arrays. A week later, Elon Musk announced that Starlink would also be entering the space data center race.
The LEO connectivity division, now generating less than 20% of Eutelsat’s revenues, has a lot of room to grow and is on pace to be the company’s largest revenue generator in the next 3 years.
This is an article that we have been wanting to write for a while, and figured it’s high time we talk about the elephant in the room: AST SpaceMobile’s $27B market cap.
Apex announced today it was jumping into Golden Dome space-based interceptor development, a reveal that helps explain the company’s two $200M raises in back-to-back quarters this year.
Comparing the before and after submissions from the small sample size suggests the impact of the change provided a significant bump to LEO providers, although fiber predictably still took the lion’s share.
ICEYE’s Financials Reveal Breakneck Growth and Big Financing Needs
In 2017, SpaceX built 13 new boosters for its 18 total Falcon 9 launches—a 72% new booster rate. So far this year, the company has built seven new boosters for 124 Falcon launches—a 6% new booster rate.
