Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-146 mission from California this week. (credit score: SpaceX)
Welcome to Version 6.45 of the Rocket Report! Essentially the most attention-grabbing information in launch this week, to me, is that Firefly is probably up on the market. That makes two of the handful of US firms with operational rockets, Firefly and United Launch Alliance, actively on provide. I will be fascinated to see what the valuations of every find yourself being if/when gross sales undergo.
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Firefly could also be up on the market. Firefly Aerospace traders are contemplating a sale that might worth the carefully held rocket and Moon lander maker at about $1.5 billion, Bloomberg studies. The rocket firm’s major proprietor, AE Industrial Companions, is working with an adviser on “strategic choices” for Firefly. Neither AE nor Firefly commented to Bloomberg in regards to the potential sale. AE invested $75 million into Texas-based Firefly as a part of a collection B financing spherical in 2022. The agency made a subsequent funding in its Sequence C spherical in November 2023.
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