{"id":82572,"date":"2026-07-01T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rocket-lab-to-buy-iridium-for-8-billion\/82572\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:17:27","slug":"rocket-lab-to-buy-iridium-for-8-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rocket-lab-to-buy-iridium-for-8-billion\/82572\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab to Buy Iridium for $8 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium, the high-uptime LEO satcom operator, will soon be acquired by launch services company Rocket Lab, the two firms announced Monday. The $8 bill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium, the high-uptime LEO satcom operator, will soon be acquired by launch services company Rocket Lab, the two firms announced Monday. The $8 bill&#8230; maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2068,1156,8941,12743,10480,14273],"class_list":["post-82572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-billion","tag-buy","tag-ipo","tag-iridium","tag-lab","tag-rocket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82572","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=82572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/82573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}