By Joey Roulette, Ross Kerber and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to reach Mars with growing the revenue-rich Starlink satellite broadband business that would offer more reliable shareholder returns. SpaceX, which transformed space travel with reusable rockets and built a global satellite broadband network, ​is targeting a listing next year that could raise more than $25 bi ...

Core Insights - The conference is focused on Electro Optic Systems (EOS), an Australian stock-listed company with global operations [1][2] - EOS has a significant presence in the U.S., UAE, Singapore, and plans to expand into Europe, including the U.K., Netherlands, France, and Germany [2] Company Background - EOS originated as a research institute owned by the Australian government in the 1970s, was privatized in the 1980s, and went public in the early 2000s [3] - The company has been driven by scientific excellence, innovation potential, and a substantial backlog of intellectual property [3] - In the previous year, EOS reported a revenue exceeding EUR 200 million [3] Recent Developments - EOS divested its EM Solutions business, which focused on satellite communication, as it did not align with the overall company strategy [4] - Due to this divestment, revenue is expected to decrease this year, but there are expectations for recovery in the following year [4]

Major market benchmarks set new record highs on enthusiasm about 2026.Thursday was an interesting day for the stock market. Major market benchmarks opened mixed but generally improved over the course of the day. Investors appeared content with the path that the Federal Reserve has chosen with interest rates and are now waiting to see what the holiday season says about the strength of the U.S. economy. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.25%),remained in negative territory at the close, but the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.2 ...

24/7 Wall St. Quick Read AST SpaceMobile missed Q3 estimates by 114% and trades at 1,567x price-to-sales despite $1.2B in cash. Rocket Lab beat Q3 estimates by 71% with revenue up 48% year-over-year and 37% gross margins. Rocket Lab generates 30x more revenue than AST SpaceMobile despite similar $30B market caps. If you’re thinking about retiring or know someone who is, there are three quick questions causing many Americans to realize they can retire earlier than expected. take 5 minutes to learn ...

Shares of AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) and Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) are drawing intense retail attention in December, with both space stocks registering neutral sentiment scores of 53 as of this morning. ...

The Axiom-4 mission, with a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 25, 2025.Elon Musk responded to the latest report that SpaceX is going public in 2026, calling it "accurate."The article from Ars Technica's Eric Berger examined why this is the right time for Musk's space venture to IPO, and said the rise of artificial intelligence and opportunities for data centers in space play an important role in ...

Starcloud, an Nvidia Corp.-backed (NASDAQ:NVDA) company, trained an AI model from orbit amid a buzz surrounding space-based AI datacenter satellites.Starcloud Used Nvidia's H-100 Chip To Train AI From SpaceThe Washington-based startup launched the Nvidia H-100 GPU, which boasts 100 times the compute of other chips previously launched into orbit, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The company has been training Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google's open LLM Gemma from orbit via its Starcloud-1 satell ...

Aerospace company Rocket Lab has produced big returns for long-term investors.Motley Fool co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner and analyst Seth Jason recently talked with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck about business, engineering, and entrepreneurship.To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center. When you're ready to invest, check out this top 10 list of stocks to buy.A full transcript is below.This podcast was recorded on Nov.30, 2025.Peter Beck: It is a ragi ...

Privately held aerospace company SpaceX moved more than $94 million in Bitcoin on Wednesday, according to on-chain data, ahead of reported plans to go public in 2026. Bitcoin addresses labeled as belonging to SpaceX by blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence transferred around 1,021 BTC in total to two addresses, broken into amounts of 407 BTC and 614 BTC.  “SpaceX just transferred $94 million of BTC. They have been moving around $100 million of BTC every week for around the past two months now,” Ark ...

Watch LIVE as RocketLab launches the 77th Electron rocket carrying The NeonSat-1A satellite. NeonSat-1A is a high-resolution optical camera, and is designed to test the constellation capabilities of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite). #RocketLab #Electron #NeonSat1A Join our community Discord! https://discord.com/invite/xCm9UpDPE4 This coverage is made possible by our amazing community! Consider becoming a The Launch ...