Rocket Lab buys Iridium: $8 billion, $54 a share

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Rocket Lab Acquires Iridium
Rocket Lab is purchasing Iridium—a pioneering satellite communications company operating a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites—for $8 billion in cash and stock at $54 a share (WSJ, Bloomberg). United Kingdom Decentralization
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