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Rocket Lab Is Betting Everything On A Rocket That Hasn't Flown

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The Motley Fool

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· Jul 9, 2026

SpaceX Going Public Is Not a Reason to Abandon Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab has several company-specific catalysts and risks that investors should understand before making the call.

The Next Web

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· Jun 29, 2026

Rocket Lab buys Iridium for $8bn in a bet to become a smaller Starlink

For most of its life Rocket Lab has sold the picks and shovels of the space economy: small rockets, satellite buses, components for other people’s missions. It has now decided that selling the tools is not as valuable as owning the mine. The company agreed to acquire Iridium Communications for about 8bn, paying 54 per [] This story continues at The Next Web

UPI

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· Jul 2, 2026

Report: Boeing Starliner future with NASA unclear

Report: Boeing Starliner future with NASA unclear

Foreign Policy Journal

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· Jul 5, 2026

Analysts Set Street-High $150 Target As Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) Stock Price Eyes 50% Surge On Iridium Deal And Record Growth

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) finds itself at a pivotal crossroads as competition among commercial space companies intensifies following SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO. New Street Research has assigned the company a bullish “Buy” rating alongside a Street-high price target of 150, implying a 51.24 upside from current levels. The bold target reflects growing analyst conviction that Rocket [] The post Analysts Set Street-High 150 Target As Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) Stock Price Eyes 50 Surge On Iridium Deal And Record Growth appeared first on Foreign Policy Journal.

Seeking Alpha

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· Jul 6, 2026

RKLX: Benefits And Risks Of Leveraging Rocket Lab Corporation

RKLX: Benefits And Risks Of Leveraging Rocket Lab Corporation

Engadget

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· Jun 27, 2026

SpaceX is reportedly planning to build its own natural gas pipeline in Texas

The 8-mile pipeline would bring fuel for Starship to the company's Starbase.

The Register

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· Jun 23, 2026

Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch

Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite

Bloomberg

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· Jun 29, 2026

Rocket Lab to Buy Iridium in Challenge to SpaceX

Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium, a pioneer in satellite telephones, for 54 a share in a cash-and-stock transaction as smaller players in the orbital economy try to catch up with market leader SpaceX. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck explains how the deal came together with Ed Ludlow on Bloomberg Tech. (Source: Bloomberg)

TechCrunch

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· Jun 29, 2026

Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium

The all-stock deal values Iridium at 8 billion, and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.

Quartz

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· Jun 29, 2026

Rocket Lab is buying satellite communications firm Iridium in an $8 billion deal to compete with SpaceX

The cash-and-stock deal gives Rocket Lab a global satellite network, licensed spectrum, and 2.55 million subscribers

The New Zealand Herald

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· Jun 26, 2026

Rocket Lab wins Nasa launch contract, adds to growing backlog

Rocket Lab wins Nasa launch contract, adds to growing backlog

Ars Technica

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· Jul 3, 2026

Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX's millenary milestone

NASA awarded Rocket Lab deals for three dedicated launches using the company's Electron rocket.

ScienceDaily

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· Jul 11, 2026

Europe just unveiled a new rival to SpaceX’s Starship

A detailed independent study found that SpaceX's Starship is every bit as revolutionary as expected, while revealing both its impressive capabilities and its biggest remaining hurdles. It also introduces an ambitious European rocket concept that could offer a very different route to affordable super heavy launches.

GovCon Wire

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· Jun 30, 2026

Rocket Lab Strikes $8B Cash-and-Stock Deal for Iridium

Rocket Lab has agreed to buy Iridium in an approximately 8 billion transaction The deal combines launch, satellite manufacturing and global communications capabilities The 2026 Air and Space Summit will examine commercial space relay, AI and more Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately 8 billion as

The Eastern Herald

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· Jul 3, 2026

Boeing’s Starliner Can’t Fly Astronauts Until 2027, NASA’s Inspector General Finds

Boeing's Starliner won't earn NASA human certification until 2027 at the earliest, six years behind schedule, the Inspector General found Thursday. The watchdog also questioned 127.9 million in Boeing payments and found the agency's own management failures contributed to the program's collapse.

South China Morning Post

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· Jun 23, 2026

China’s new ‘super fuel’ could help Long March rockets increase payload by 10%

A Chinese Long March-12 rocket launched last week used a new super fuel that boosted the rocket’s payload capacity by 10 per cent, according to its developer. As China expands its role in space with a series of ambitious lunar missions and puts growing numbers of commercial satellites in orbit, demand for larger payloads is increasing. Instead of designing bigger, more expensive airframes, The Beijing Aerospace Test Technology Research Institute, a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and...

IGN

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· Jun 23, 2026

Star Wars: Galactic Racer – The First Preview

Not only were my fears of the roguelite loop unfounded, but the Burnout roots baked into developer Fuse Games’s DNA was joyously evident in every moment I spent on the track with Star Wars: Galactic Racer. And the times I wasn’t going hundreds of miles per hour when I was on foot did a great job of further Star Wars-ifying my experience. I’m incredibly optimistic about what I’ve seen from this long overdue spiritual successor to Episode 1: Pod Racer, and I can’t wait to play more of it.

ArcaMax

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· Jul 1, 2026

Joby Aviation creates a joint venture with Toyota to build air taxis

The race to bring air travel to the sky is heating up as Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation and Toyota launch a joint venture to commercially produce air taxis. The companies said in a news release Tuesday that they will work together on productivity...

Gizmodo

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· Jun 24, 2026

Boeing’s Busted Starliner Won’t Return to Flight for Another Year as Technical Issues Persist

It's been two years since Starliner left a crew stranded in space, but NASA is not giving up on the spacecraft just yet.

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