Google Is Funding a Space Startup -- But I Wouldn't Even Think About Investing In It

It was a story good enough for a Hallmark movie, and it came just in time for Christmas.Last week, space news site Payload Space told the heartwarming tale of a small Ukrainian company, "Promin," and its quixotic quest to build a new rocket by joining some of the best Soviet-era rocket scientists with American corporate know-how. Based in Dnipro, not far from the front lines in war-ravaged southeastern Ukraine, Promin was working toward its first rocket launch when Russia invaded in 2022. Putting those plan ...