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Rocket Lab’s thesis centers on becoming a fully integrated space infrastructure company, controlling every step from satellite production and launch to space-based data services, thus capturing significant value across the space value chain.
SpaceX has pushed up average payload mass for Starlink-dedicated launches to roughly 16,850 kg, or 96% of max capacity of 17.5 tons to LEO in a reusable configuration, maximizing every meter and kilogram offered by the rocket.
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) updated its spectrum sharing rules for Non-Geostationary (NGSO) Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) systems to establish quantified interference protection criteria for satellite systems based on their level of spectrum priority.
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Space is a nascent market with vast, unbounded potential, where an early-stage startup can become a dominant business integral to the very infrastructure of the space economy for decades to come.
In the 1940s, science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov proposed the idea of space-based solar power, imagining space stations that could collect solar power and beam the energy to Earth.
Only 37 days separated Starship’s Flight 5 launch from yesterday’s Flight 6.
If the last decade marked a revolution in sending mass to space, the next decade will center on bringing mass back to Earth.