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Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
Alright, at the risk of being run out of town by an angry (space) mob, here's my thoughts on the big $ASTS $FLY announcement.
youtu.be/SFm8WrAa500
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
✅ Neutron’s Stage 1 Forward Dome has been built and cured.
The dome has come off the AFP machine as planned and completed its heat and pressure processing cycle to cure the carbon composite material.
Next step: analysis and material tests to confirm quality and strength, before it moves to the next phase of Stage 1 tank assembly.
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
BIG MOMENT!!!
We have a very exciting episode coming out about Rocket Lab soon!!
It’s about what it takes to build a rocket company from scratch and what comes next!
Electron's 100th mission. It's almost time.
"The Mountain God Rises" will carry a QPS-SAR satellite for @QPS_Inc to a 575km LEO from Launch Complex 1 no earlier than Saturday Nov 14.
Launch window opens:
🚀6:30pm NZDT
🚀05:30 UTC
🚀2:30pm JST
🚀12:30am Eastern
🚀9:30pm Pacific (Nov 13)
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
Y'all know this is pretty hard, right? Like, there's really some validity to the "It's not rocket science" idiom?
arstechnica.com/space/2026/1…
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
If only someone had figured out years ago that the key to space was rockets…
Oh, wait:
"The secret to these mega constellations is not the satellite, it's the high-cadence, low-cost access to space. It's the rocket.
That is the true needle mover. Few people can build satellites at high volume, but the real hard thing to do is get them into orbit in a high cadence."
AST SpaceMobile to Build Own 20-Ton Rocket to Deploy BlueBird Satellites in Low Earth Orbit Using Miranda Engines from Firefly Aerospace.
businesswire.com/news/home/2…
#ASTSpaceMobile #Broadband #ConnectingtheUnconnected #BlueBirds #Blacklift
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
Well, we've had better days.
youtu.be/HX_pkOtHJZM
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
Electron's 100th mission. It's almost time.
"The Mountain God Rises" will carry a QPS-SAR satellite for @QPS_Inc to a 575km LEO from Launch Complex 1 no earlier than Saturday Nov 14.
Launch window opens:
🚀6:30pm NZDT
🚀05:30 UTC
🚀2:30pm JST
🚀12:30am Eastern
🚀9:30pm Pacific (Nov 13)
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
Thanks @daveginvesting
Space Stocks are Crashing! Let's Talk About Why youtu.be/HX_pkOtHJZM?si=7Oc3… via @YouTube
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
Our new booster engine, Northstar, was built from the ground up by a scrappy team focused on weight, cost, manufacturability, and performance. More than 65% of the engine is additively manufactured using our in-house 3D printing capability. Northstar can be assembled in less than a day and produces 715,000 pounds of thrust.
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
$ASTS: Now in various stages of production and assembly through BlueBird 51
$ASTS: @AST_SpaceMobile presentation by @luizabud1 starting in about 20 minutes! Livestream: ieeetv.ieee.org/brooklyn-AI-…
November 5, 1:30 to 1:50 PM EST | Luiz Abud, VP Latam & Canada, AST SpaceMobile is having a dedicated presentation on "The Future of Direct-to-Device: AI, Technology Evolution and Unified Networks
November 5, 1:55 to 2:35 PM EST | Luiz Abud, VP Latam & Canada, AST SpaceMobile, is a speaker on the "TN-NTN Integration and Economics" panel alongside Skylo, Anritsu, Qualcomm, MDA, and Airbus. The moderator is Joe Madden.
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
I'm putting together a team @vast @RocketLab
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
Rocket Lab Mynaric, it's time for some European contracts. 👀
Press release from @SES_Satellites
ses.com/news/press-release/s…
.@SES_Satellites transmits video image from @mynaric lasercom terminal on board @K2SpaceCo Pathfinder 1 meoSphere mission in MEO orbit to @CAILabs optical ground station in Rennes, France. @Thales_Alenia_S handled sytem AIT and ops. Duration, speed of link not disclosed.
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
$RDW: Redwire Q3 results are out w/ record backlog and record gross margins.
Revenue $109.0M
Gross margin 32.3%
Backlog $619.7M
Book-to-bill 1.73
EPS $(0.09), up $0.20
YoY Liquidity $538.9M
Full-year revenue guidance of $450M to $500M is reaffirmed.
The call is tomorrow at 9 AM ET.
Rocket Lad / dutch1664 retweeted
.@SES_Satellites transmits video image from @mynaric lasercom terminal on board @K2SpaceCo Pathfinder 1 meoSphere mission in MEO orbit to @CAILabs optical ground station in Rennes, France. @Thales_Alenia_S handled sytem AIT and ops. Duration, speed of link not disclosed.