Max Q: Launch industry low-down

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Another public launch company is coming soon, while a still-private launch had to push off their planned first flight date. Still another launcher got the go-ahead for its big debut. It’s a launch launch launch news week in space.

Virgin Orbit plans $3.2B SPAC

Image Credits: Virgin Orbit

The past year has been a real dam-break in terms of exit events for space-focused startups, and it’s hard to attribute that to anything other than the rise in popularity of the SPAC merger path to public markets.

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