Rocket Lab Acquires Iridium for $8B

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capital flows

government

Vertex Aerospace wins $500M USAF IDIQ award for fleet wide logistics and cargo support (AT).
AeroVironment wins $500M Army firm fixed price award for c-UAS & aerial threat detection (GW).
ManTech wins $197M U.S. Naval award to upgrade surface radar systems & missile threat detection (GW).
AEVEX wins $50M USAF award for GPS denied uncrewed long range precision strike platform (AT).

series A+

Southern Launch raises $25M Series A by Brindabella and Co., NRFC, Coupland AM for small lift sovereign launch and reentry services (SL).
Quantum Systems raises $1.2B Series D at $8B valuation by Blackstone, Airbus, Advent to scale drone manufacturing (QS).

m&a

Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium Communications for $8B cash-stock for LEO constellation with 2.55M active subscribers (SN).
BTQ Technologies acquires QPerfect for $21M cash-stock in pivot from classical compute to quantum infrastructure (BK).
Scandium Canada acquires Ferreol Technologies for $4.6M cash to turn rare earth metals into aircraft parts (BK).
Mitsubishi Electric acquires Infostellar to vertically integrate ground station infrastructure & GSaaS platform (SN).

headlines

Planet & Isar Aerospace partner for upcoming sovereign Germany-based launches (ST).
Axelspace and JAXA partner for orbital launch & hardware testing (SN).