Rocket Lab has carved a niche of launching reusable small rockets because they cost less to launch and are faster to schedule for takeoff. The Electron has a sticker price of $7.5 million compared to SpaceX's Falcon 9, which will cost you $60 million. Rocket Lab is working on neutron, which is a larger rocket capable of carrying up to 13,000 kilogram payload into the lower Earth orbit. It should also be capable of human space flight,. but the primary goal of this one is to compete with SpaceX on launching very heavy satellites and mega-constellations of satellites.
Just because a stock is down 50% doesn’t mean that the business is broken. (Or does it?)
Ricky Mulvey caught up with Motley Fool Senior Analyst Yasser El-Shimy to talk about some higher growth companies whose stocks have taken a hit. They discuss: - How investors can approach growth stocks with a venture capital lens. - Profitability questions for a streaming data company. - A second look at a space company that went public via SPAC. Companies discussed: CFLT, LMT, SPCE, RKLB Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Yasser El-Shimy Engineer: Tim Sparks Production Assist: Alex Friedman
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