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Private investors in the #US 🇺🇸, #EU 🇪🇺, and #Oceania 🇳🇿 have pumped tens of billions 💰 into launch vehicle companies—as examples, more than $10B for #BlueOrigin, $1.2B into #RocketLab, $2.4B for #RelativitySpace, $700 million into #Firefly, $500M into #StokeSpace, and $483M into #IsarAerospace. (As an aside, the cost of developing the expendable #Falcon9 was $400M 💵) payloadspace.com/why-is-spacex

Payload · Why Is SpaceX The Master of Launch?Billions of dollars have yet to buy a SpaceX competitor.

Upcoming :
🇺🇸 57th #Falcon9 flight of 📆 2025
🇨🇳 4th #CZ2D flight of 📆 2025, the fifth launch of a #ZhuQue2 vehicle
🇦🇺 #GilmourSpace's #Eris
🇳🇿 #RocketLab's second of an eight-launch contract for flights in 📆 2025 and 2026 for #iQPS
🇮🇳 #ISRO's second mission of 📆 2025, first uncrewed test flight of #Gaganyaan planned
nasaspaceflight.com/2025/05/la

NASASpaceFlight.com · Launch Roundup: Orbital launches from five countries planned - NASASpaceFlight.comOn the heels of a busy April, activity is ramping up for May with launches…

If the stock market doesn’t crash by the end of the month, Rocketlab is a good opportunity to invest in a very competent space company. They launch about a mission a week it seems, and they’ve been on a tear this fiscal year.

Their stock price is currently sitting at about $26, and it’s going to jump probably 20-25% at least by end of day Feb 27th, when their earnings report drops. This is a financial tip on the internet, and for posterity I’ll boost it on the 28th.

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#Orbex : “The first orbital #spaceflight from the #UK 🇬🇧 has come a step closer following the Highland Council’s decision for the #Sutherland #spaceport”.

Other private aerospace companies have also developed #3Dprinted rocket engines :

#RocketCrafters has successfully completed a series of tests ahead of a planned test flight later this year.
#RocketLab's #Electron
#RelativitySpace will develop “the world’s first fully 3D printed rocket.”

3dprintingindustry.com/news/or