{"id":82482,"date":"2026-06-29T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rocket-lab-to-acquire-global-satellite-service-iridium\/82482\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:27:39","slug":"rocket-lab-to-acquire-global-satellite-service-iridium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rocket-lab-to-acquire-global-satellite-service-iridium\/82482\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab to Acquire Global Satellite Service Iridium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch and space systems and Iridium Communications Inc., a provider of global voice, data, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium. Rocket Lab will acquire all the outstanding shares of Iridium common stock for $54 per share in a cash and stock transaction. This represents an enterprise value for Iridium of approximately $8.0 billion.<\/p>\n<p>marine link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch and space systems and Iridium Communications Inc., a provider of global voice, data, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium. Rocket Lab will acquire all the outstanding shares of Iridium common &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7626,1375,12743,10480,14273,2422,1886],"class_list":["post-82482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-acquire","tag-global","tag-iridium","tag-lab","tag-rocket","tag-satellite","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/82483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}