Rocket Lab is buying Iridium for $8 billion, Blue Origin has a new plan to get New Glenn flying again without rebuilding the same pad architecture, and NASA just awarded four new CLPS missions.

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Topics

• Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium - SpaceNews
• Rocket Lab to Acquire Iridium in Historic Deal, Creating A
• New Glenn Return to Flight - Blue Origin
• NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities
• NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base Demonstrations - NASA
• Episode 154 - They Ran Into Us (with Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium) - Off-Nominal

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