
The FCC just handed Rocket Lab a procedural win on its Iridium acquisition, but the stock's 18% slide over the past month and a rival already flagging concerns inside the docket suggest the hard part is still ahead.
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The FCC just handed Rocket Lab a procedural win on its Iridium acquisition, but the stock's 18% slide over the past month and a rival already flagging concerns inside the docket suggest the hard part is still ahead.

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) has a market cap of about $2 trillion, but its stock doesn’t trade like it. Over the past 22 trading sessions, the gap between SpaceX’s daily high and low averaged 4.53% of its closing price. That...
Iridium shareholders will vote Sept.24 on the $8.1 billion deal, which is expected to close in mid-2027.

SpaceX stock is surging on a firm date for Starship's most ambitious test yet, but whether the milestone justifies the valuation depends on a single high-stakes question the vehicle has never answered.

RKLB expands its spacecraft component business with avionics, radios and batteries, extending its role across the space supply chain.

Rocket Lab (RKLB) stock has traded between $39.48 and $150.23 over the past 52 weeks. It now sits about 58% below its 52-week high, and anyone who bought twelve months ago is still up about 19%. None of that tells you what you would be buying today. Rocket Lab sells two quite different things, and the one its name points at is the smaller of them.

Getting there takes about 55% growth next year -- less than the space company is delivering right now.

Golden Dome’s space-based interceptor program reached “flight-ready hardware,” with an integrated demonstration targeted for 2028.

Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) closed at $63.55 in the latest trading session, marking a +1.6% move from the prior day.

On Monday, the U.S. Space Force confirmed the existence of space-based weapons, though what exactly is in space is classified. The news represents a milestone in military technology. Space is the new strategic high ground.
One major risk surrounding Rocket Lab's expansion just disappeared

Rocket Lab stock gains as the company raises $1.944 billion via an ATM offering to fund Iridium deal. Here’s how you should play RKLB shares at current levels.

The rocket launch and satellite specialist just reached an important milestone in its historic acquisition.

Once upon a time, the ‘space race’ meant the grand strategic competition between the USA and the USSR to gain control of the heavens. The superpowers designed and built satellites, manned capsules, orbital spacecraft and long-endurance space stations, and NASA even sent the Apollo landers to put men on the Moon. Today, the space race is heating up again, but in a very different way. Yes, the governments are still involved – NASA’s Artemis program is targeting the Moon, the Russians have a Soyuz
Rocket Lab Stock Rallies as $1.94 Billion Funding Clears Path for Iridium Deal

Boeing is a century-old aerospace giant working to reclaim its reputation. Rocket Lab is a fast-moving space company building the infrastructure for the next era of commercial spaceflight.

Star Wars is no longer science fiction. On Monday, the U.S. Space Force confirmed the existence of space-based weapons, though what is in space is classified. The Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) stock is rising 3% to $64.14 in Tuesday morning trading as investors respond to progress on the company’s planned acquisition of Iridium Communications. Rocket Lab completed a $1.944 billion at-the-market equity offering, giving Rocket Lab enough financing to cover the cash portion of the roughly $8 billion transaction and related costs. […]

One trades at a 14.9x forward P/E with negative free cash flow; the other is burning $321.8 million annually.
The company completed its $1.94 billion at-the-market (ATM) stock offering, selling about 29.3 million shares.
The slower-growing Iridium business is expected to initially dilute Rocket Lab’s nearly 100% annual growth rate.

Despite record insider selling, Rocket Lab draws heavy institutional buying and Moderate Buy analyst ratings, backed by strong revenue growth, a $2.3 billion backlog, and the upcoming Neutron rocket launch.

Rocket Lab Corporation recently filed a formal protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over NASA’s Mars Telecommunications Network contract award to Blue Origin, arguing the decision breached eligibility rules and misjudged its proposal. The challenge puts a spotlight on how procurement processes shape access to large government space programs and underscores Rocket Lab’s ambitions to compete for flagship interplanetary infrastructure work. We’ll now examine how Rocket Lab’s...
Eligible bidders needed prior NASA funding for a Mars Sample Return study and a proposal featuring a separately launched telecommunications orbiter.

The number of space companies keeps growing, and this new entrant is a bigger threat to Rocket Lab than to SpaceX.

Rocket Lab shares trade near $62 despite new solar cell tech, a 16th Electron launch and analyst optimism, as investors await the Neutron rocket's debut for a technical turnaround.

Several Ark funds recently bought the dip in Meta and Rocket Lab.
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