Rocket Lab 🤝 Mars
From orbiters and landers to rovers and helicopters – our technology has enabled some of the most ambitious Mars missions in history.
With Motiv (creators of Perseverance's robotic arm) now part of Rocket Lab, we're one of the few companies capable of delivering complete Mars mission solutions, including launch + spacecraft + software, and now proven robotics for surface and orbital operations too.
🚀 The new Long March 12B just made the successful maiden flight from Jiuquan at 08:40UTC June 1 carrying SpaceSail group 10 into orbit.
D4.37m, 9 YF-102V kerolox engines in first stage and 1 YF-102V in second stage.
All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.
Same Starlink satellites.
Australia: 162 Mbps.
Indonesia: 40 Mbps.
The difference? Regulation and gateways.
Australia is doing its homework. New analysis:
https://t.co/L39Q4WLUUL
SIA A350 & A380 done ✅
Let’s switch to Indonesia. Welcome to Starlink’s Indonesian adventure — where geography, regulation, and Telkom throw one very complicated party.
New deep dive just dropped:
https://t.co/jWjHJCrBuv
#Starlink#LEO#Indonesia
Singapore Air said it will begin rolling out a Starlink broadband service on its flights from 2027, with the system promising faster connectivity than its existing inflight offering https://t.co/32jkTZpQWB
Singapore picked a French AI company for defence and government infrastructure. Not OpenAI. Not DeepSeek.
The reason isn’t about capability. It’s about a criterion most vendors don’t know they’re being tested on. https://t.co/wOVdwV2V9a
Most analysts read the SpaceX-xAI merger as asset consolidation.
The real move: collapsing data, inference, connectivity, and launch into a single legal entity — eliminating internal transaction friction that no orbital infrastructure player has attempted before.
For APAC governments and enterprises, the question isn’t whether to use Starlink.
It’s what happens to regional autonomy when critical infrastructure runs inside a closed-loop system controlled by one private entity.
That’s not a technology question. It’s a structural one.
On this day in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was placed in orbit from Space Shuttle Discovery, the day after it launched. This image was captured as Hubble was suspended above Discovery's cargo bay.