Welcome to S-SPACi! In today’s edition, Astra shares took a header after a story by Bloomberg, Spire and Momentus won contracts, Planet’s newest satellite was shipped for launch, Rocket Lab officially opened an engine development center in Virgin Orbit’s old headquarters, Virgin Galactic completed another suborbital tourism flight, and the US Declaration of Independence is headed for the Moon.
(more…)Welcome to S-SPACi! In today’s edition, we’ll look at what happened to shares of Astra Space, Momentus, and Spire Global after the companies did reverse stock splits. Spire and Planet Labs won NASA data purchase contracts, Spire’s senior suits signed new contracts, Rocket Lab acquired another production facility, Intuitive Machines opened a new facility to support its lunar missions, astronomers escalated their concerns about AST SpaceMobile’s massive satellites, and Redwire is sending its technology to another asteroid.
(more…)Welcome to S-SPACi! In this edition, Astra announced a reverse stock split and filed to sell more shares, Redwire filed to raise $400 million, Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck plans to sell millions in stock, Rocket Lab won a contract for four HASTE launches, Planet Labs and SatixFy reported higher revenues, Virgin Galactic completed another commercial flight, Terran Orbital doubled its satellite production capacity, and Satellogic announced a new partnership.
(more…)Welcome to S-SPACi! In this week’s edition, Astra Space plans to raise money and conduct a reverse stock split, Redwire will build a new microgravity payload development facility in Indiana, OneMind extended its agreement with Spire Global, BigBear.ai appointed a new chief technology officer (CTO), and Rocket Lab set a date for its second-quarter earnings report.
(more…)Welcome to S-SPACi! In this week’s edition, Planet Labs stock fell after its earnings report, Astra Space voted to split its stock to avoid delisting, BigBear.ai and BlackSky won contracts, five space SPACs had hardware on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission, Spire Global teamed with an insurance company, a Redwire solar array was installed on the International Space Station, and Caltech demonstrated power beaming in space on a Momentus spacecraft.
(more…)Welcome to S-SPACi. In this week’s edition, Astra Space and Terran Orbital plan fund raises, Terran Orbital celebrates a successful mission, Satellogic’s reported higher revenue, the sale of bankrupt Virgin Orbit is approved, BlackSky spots a Chinese airship, Spire Global offers a new service to customers, Virgin Galactic shakes up its board, and Intuitive Machines will celebrate its moon mission with custom cigars.
(more…)Welcome to this week’s S-SPACi. Rocket Lab has entered the hypersonic market, BigBear.ai stockholders resells shares, and three space SPACs had payloads aboard SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare mission.
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