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Rocket Lab’s stock price has soared to new heights in the wake of strong earnings.CEO Peter Beck told BI competing against better-funded rivals like SpaceX is its “superpower.”Beck, who practices founder mode, broke down his morning routine — which starts before 5 a.m. and doesn’t include coffee. Peter Beck runs…
Baiju Bhatt, the cofounder of trading app Robinhood, has a new space startup.Aetherflux aims to launch a constellation of satellites to transmit solar power to Earth using infrared lasers.Bhatt told BI why he’s joining the commercial space race and what Robinhood taught him about capitalism. When Baiju Bhatt co-founded the…
Comet A3, or Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, is visible in the Northern Hemisphere this October.The comet takes 80,000 years to orbit the sun, so Neanderthals were among the last people to see it.It could be the brightest comet in a decade. Here’s how, where, and when to see it. A rare comet…
Astronomers believe that billions of years ago, a Mars-sized object smashed into Earth, knocking our planet over and leaving it tilted at an angle.That ancient bump is what caused the Earth’s seasons — times of the year that have very specific weather patterns and hours of daylight that vary depending…
After a sex-trafficking indictment, the superwealthy rapper and music mogul has been forced to leave behind his grand Los Angeles and Miami mansions for the confines of a notorious Brooklyn, New York, jail.A former warden at the facility told Business Insider that Combs could expect to be treated like any…
Vancouver-based mineral exploration and development company Tactical Resources Corp (TSXV:) surged higher Friday on news that it plans to list on NASDAQ via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, Plum Acquisition III Corp (NASDAQ:). Tactical Resources Corp shares rose 120% on the TSX Venture Exchange in afternoon trading Friday. The…
By Sam Nussey and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) -A resurgent yen helped bring Japanese stocks crashing back to earth on Monday, leaving investors scrambling to gauge the potentially diminished outlook for earnings, and snuffing out a months-long dramatic run by the Tokyo market. In just three trading sessions the Nikkei…
By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) – Four decades ago, a rare earth processing plant on France’s Atlantic coast was one of the largest in the world, churning out materials used to make colour televisions, arc lights and camera lenses. Its current owner Solvay (EBR:) is racing to return the plant…
Two rare asteroids will zoom past Earth at close range this week, within just 42 hours of each other.Due to their size and trajectory, both of these space rocks are labeled “potentially hazardous.” But that doesn’t mean they pose an immediate threat to Earth.In fact, both of them will safely…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Problems with Boeing (NYSE:)’s Starliner capsule, still docked at the International Space Station (ISS), have upended the original plans for its return of its two astronauts to Earth, as last-minute fixes and tests draw out a mission crucial to the future of Boeing’s space…
