Space & Defense
Iridium's employee FAQ, filed as merger communication on August 6, sets out the consideration for Rocket Lab's acquisition: $27 in cash plus shares on a ratio that is pinned between $67.50 and $112.50.
Space & Defense
Space Exploration Technologies received exactly two U.S. patents on August 4. One lets cheaper half-duplex terminals share an uplink frame; the other keeps antennas still while satellites ride to orbit in a stack.
Space
A newly published Hughes application manages satellite upstream capacity by reallocating gateway channels to match demand. The lens it points at is efficiency of the installed network, using software and prediction rather than new spectrum.
Space & Defense
A definitive merger agreement pairs a launch-and-space-systems company with a global LEO satellite-comms operator. The 8-Ks disclose $27.00 in cash plus a collared Rocket Lab stock leg, a $223.62 million break fee, and a June 2027 outside date.
Space
A newly issued Boeing patent covers a gimbal-free, uncooled missile seeker launched from a hand-held gripstock. Read with the electronics and autonomy grants that issued the same day, it signals a push toward cheaper precision munitions.
Space & Defense
An 8-K filed June 22 discloses a privately negotiated exchange in which a holder of Virgin Galactic's 2.50% convertible senior notes due 2027 will receive shares and pre-funded warrants in lieu of cash, reducing the outstanding 2027 notes from $70.4 million to $17.9 million.
Space & Defense
An 8-K filed June 22 discloses that AeroVironment's audit committee determined its January 31, 2026 Form 10-Q requires restatement over a goodwill-impairment carrying-value error in its Space reporting unit; a Form 10-Q/A was filed concurrently and two directors resigned.
Space & Defense
A Form 8-K furnished June 22 says Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has commenced an inaugural 144A/Reg S senior unsecured notes offering, held about $100.8 billion in cash as of June 19, and intends to use net proceeds to repay its bridge loan facility in full.
Space
Some space companies sell whole satellite programs as long-term, milestone-based arrangements, billing as contractual milestones are met. Here is how a real 10-K describes the structure and how revenue is recognized against it.
Space
A space company's contract mix shapes its margins and its risk. Here is what fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, time-and-materials and IDIQ contracts mean, and why an IDIQ ceiling is not the same as an obligation, in the words of real filings.
Space
When a large share of a space company's revenue comes from government customers, its filings disclose the dependence as a risk factor. Here is what that concentration exposes a company to, in the words of a real 10-K.
Space
Many new-space companies went public by merging with a SPAC. In 2024 the SEC adopted rules to align SPAC and de-SPAC disclosures with traditional IPOs. Here is what the rules require and why the structure matters.
Space
A going-concern warning is a formal statement that there is substantial doubt about whether a company can fund itself for the next year. Here is what triggers the disclosure and how a real space-company filing frames the risk.
Space
Many space contracts are recognized as revenue gradually, using a cost-to-cost method, rather than all at once on delivery. Here is how a real 10-K describes the over-time, single-performance-obligation accounting that drives a space company's reported sales.
Space
Backlog is not one number. A space or defense company's funded backlog is money already committed to the work; unfunded backlog is contracted scope that still depends on future appropriations. The distinction is disclosed, and it matters.
Space
Remaining performance obligations are the contracted-but-unrecognized revenue a space company has under signed deals. Here is how the disclosure is defined in a real SEC filing and why it differs from a press-release backlog number.
Space
An 8-K filed June 18 discloses that a Florida federal court preliminarily approved a settlement of the long-running Yingling derivative action against Redwire's directors, with the deal funded by insurance and built around board and risk-committee reforms.
Space
A newly published Airbus Defence and Space application describes a muted reference-signal method for positioning services. Read against the company's recent filing cluster — spanning PNT, stealth weapons integration, radar-absorbing materials and lunar oxygen production — it points to a prime spreading R&D across the full space-and-defense map rather than one program.
Space
A newly published Dawn Aerospace application re-files the company's rocket-motor feed system built around a passive sonic choke and self-pressurized propellants. Paired with its earlier grant, the filing points to a new-space firm concentrating its IP on propulsion simplicity rather than breadth.
Space
A Lockheed Martin patent issued March 17 covers high-density radio-frequency connections for the electronically steered arrays used in satellites and space systems. Read against a cluster of recent Lockheed antenna grants, it extends issued coverage from the radiating face of an array down into the interconnects that make it manufacturable.
Space
A recently published Hughes Network Systems application describes balancing satellite-terminal traffic across two frequency bands at once. Read against a cluster of recent Hughes filings, it points to a company spending R&D on stitching GEO, LEO and cellular into one managed pipe — including direct-to-device.
Space
An Airbus Defence and Space patent issued March 24 covers an Earth-observation spacecraft that interleaves image capture and laser data transmission within a single orbit by precisely re-pointing between tasks. Read against the company's deep satellite footprint, it extends issued coverage from building and moving satellites toward getting their data to the ground faster.
Space
A General Dynamics Mission Systems application published April 2 covers printing circuits onto curved surfaces. Set against the unit's recent run of free-space-optics and quantum-communications filings, the cluster points to a quiet build-out of optical and quantum links and resilient navigation for contested space and defense networks.
Space
A Blue Origin patent issued March 31 covers using continuous electric propulsion to hold a large crewed space vehicle in 'pristine microgravity' against atmospheric drag in low Earth orbit. Read against the company's deep launch-and-vehicle grants, it extends issued coverage from getting to orbit toward living and working there.
