Rocket Report: Neutron’s Hungry Hippo is deemed ready, whither Orbex?

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Rocket Lab has completed qualification testing of its "Hungry Hippo" payload fairing.

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Welcome to Edition 8.22 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week concerns the decision by SpaceX founder Elon Musk to take the company public, via IPO, sometime within the next 12 to 18 months. Musk confirmed this after Ars published a story on Wednesday evening. This understandably raises questions about whether a future SpaceX will be committed more to AI data centers in space or Mars settlement. However, one of the company’s founding employees, Tom Mueller, said this could benefit the company’s Mars plans. Clearly this is something we’ll be following closely.

Rocket Report: Neutron’s Hungry Hippo is deemed ready, whither Orbex?

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