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• Bernard Conodn
Investors in Elon Musk’s space company will have their first opportunity to question him Tuesday during SpaceX’s inaugural quarterly earnings call as a publicly traded company. The call will provide an early view of investor priorities for the launch and commercial space business.
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Investors in Elon Musk’s space company will have their first opportunity to question him Tuesday during SpaceX’s inaugural quarterly earnings call as a publicly traded company. The call will provide an early view of investor priorities for the launch and commercial space business.
With a Falcon 9 upper stage expected to impact the moon this week, NASA and SpaceX are examining ways to prevent similar lunar collisions in the future. The effort highlights the need to account for spent launch hardware beyond Earth orbit and during deep-space missions.
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The first full week of August features six missions on the global launch calendar, with activity spanning Asia and the United States. SpaceX accounts for three Falcon 9 flights—two Starlink missions and one deploying satellites for AST SpaceMobile—alongside multiple Chinese missions.
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ArianeGroup has decided to keep launch startup MaiaSpace operating after the company’s losses pushed shareholders’ equity into negative territory. The decision preserves MaiaSpace’s continued participation in the launch market while highlighting the financial pressure facing the venture.
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SpaceX is preparing to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana, a move that would create a substantial new launch-site footprint. The location is described as offering several significant advantages, potentially expanding the company’s launch infrastructure and operational options.
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SpaceX heads into its first post-IPO earnings report as employee and insider lockups expire, creating a fresh test for its private-market valuation. Short interest has reached an estimated $23.6 billion, exceeding Tesla’s, while investor enthusiasm around Elon Musk’s companies faces renewed scrutiny.
Outlier Space has completed a $7.35 million pre-seed financing round to develop a commercial capsule for microgravity research and payload return. The funding supports the company’s effort to build infrastructure for conducting experiments in space and bringing them back to Earth.
The Air Force Research Laboratory added $11.7 million to a Blue Origin contract exploring whether commercial rockets could transport military supplies around the world. The expansion brings the agreement’s total value to approximately $13 million and broadens the Air Force’s examination of commercial launch capacity for logistics.
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