Space & Satellite Tech Stocks Week Ahead: Rocket Lab’s $816M Space Force Win, AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 6 Launch, and EchoStar’s Spectrum Spotlight
The U.S. Space Development Agency awarded about $3.5 billion to Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, Northrop Grumman, and Rocket Lab for 72 missile-tracking satellites, with launches set for fiscal 2029. Rocket Lab called the $805 million deal its largest contract yet. U.S. stock markets will close early Dec. 24 and remain shut Dec. 25, thinning liquidity and amplifying moves in space sector stocks.