Rocket Lab (RKLB -1.99%) stock soared this week thanks to a combination of bullish catalysts. The space-tech company's share price climbed 17.8% from the previous Friday's market close in a stretch that saw the S&P 500 index rise 3.4% and set a new record high.Strong bullish momentum shaped the broader market this week as the new ceasefire between Israel and Iran lessened geopolitical volatility and investors bet that the Federal Reserve is poised to take a more dovish stance on interest rates. Rocket Lab s ...

Watch as Blue Origin launches the NS-33 Crew on a suborbital New Shepard mission from Launch Site One in West Texas. The crew includes: Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and James (Jim) Sitkin. For a full detailed mission briefing visit: https://tlpnetwork.com/launches/ns-33 Join our community Discord! https://discord.com/invite/xCm9UpDPE4 This coverage is made possible by our amazing community! Consider becoming a The Launch Pad Member and go ...

Watch as Blue Origin launches the NS-33 Crew on a suborbital New Shepard mission from Launch Site One in West Texas. The crew includes: Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and James (Jim) Sitkin. For a full detailed mission briefing visit: https://tlpnetwork.com/launches/ns-33 Join our community Discord! https://discord.com/invite/xCm9UpDPE4 This coverage is made possible by our amazing community! Consider becoming a The Launch Pad Member and go ...

“Starship is a big rocket. It's capable of at least 100 tons and probably closer to 200 tons of useful payload to the surface of the moon. So, we have designed it to be far in excess of NASA's requirements.”Elon Muskhttps://t.co/nImsfjDAXc ...

Is it healthy that blockspace fees are trending to zero over time???Sort of, let me explain what's happening with this.If you look at cumulative fees spent over the last 7 years or so, its up and to the right. More fees, more volume across all chains. However, within this broader secular trend, the actual fees on each chain have gone down signficantly. Think about EIP1559 for Ethereum L1, then blobs for L2s, then altDA. This also applies to network upgrades like Avalanche had recently.This is an argument fo ...

“The moon and Mars are often thought of as some escape hatch for rich people. But it won't be that at all.For the early people who go to Mars, it'll be dangerous. I mean, really, it kind of reads like Shackleton's ad for Antarctic explorers: Difficult, dangerous, good chance you'll die. Excitement for those who survive. That kind of thing.” ...

Elon Musk"In order to make Mars work, we need the next generation of rockets and spacecraft.We think we've got something that will enable people to move to Mars for approximately half a million dollars.And you can get a free return ticket with that”https://t.co/biveT5caMR ...

RT Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver)Great job to all who sailed on M/V Megan and made the @SpaceX human spaceflight program truly unique! We chartered Megan, then GO Searcher, in 2016 to learn how to recover payload fairings. After extensive modifications to support Dragon, we learned how to recover astronauts after human spaceflight missions with Megan – helping set the stage for the return of human spaceflight to the U.S. with Demo-2.Megan recovered 24 astronauts, including the crews of the first fully commer ...

Key Takeaways HWM saw 9% growth in commercial and 19% rise in defense aerospace revenues in Q1 2025. HWM boosted its dividend by 25% and has $2B remaining in share repurchase authorization. TXT posted $7.87B in aviation backlog but faces cost pressures and ongoing supply-chain delays.Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM) and Textron Inc. (TXT) are two prominent names operating in the aerospace and defense industry. As rivals, both companies are engaged in producing highly engineered aircraft components for commerci ...

Key Takeaways RKLB targets over 20 launches in 2025, backed by a 100% Electron mission success rate year to date. BKSY secured a $24M NGA contract and plans a constellation upgrade to boost real-time monitoring. RKLB rose 652.9% in a year; BKSY is up 158.9% in 3 months but has a weaker ROE.As investors increasingly focus on the commercialization of space and national security needs, the demand for space technology stocks like Rocket Lab Corp. (RKLB) and BlackSky Technology (BKSY) is rising, further fuele ...