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Rocket L🅰️d / dutch1664 retweeted
It’s a beautiful day to set sail with the next pieces of Neutron flight hardware to Launch Complex 3.
Earlier today we sent Neutron’s Stage 2 and Thrust Module out of the Neutron Factory and onto a barge for transport through Chesapeake Bay to Wallops Island in Virginia.
Once it arrives, the Thrust Module will go straight onto the launch mount at LC-3 for check outs and the beginning of wider systems demonstrations including integrated fluids tests and module-to-launch-mount interface checkouts. With no strongback on the launch mount by design, Neutron’s Thrust Module is the rocket’s only physical interface to the launch pad, which this upcoming test campaign enables us to test early before the entire vehicle comes together.
Neutron parts shipping out ‼️🚀🚀🚀
Rocket Lab Space Structures Complex Update 6
October 26, 2026
Middle River, Maryland
Rocket Lab has loaded two large pieces of Neutron hardware onto the Northstar vessel KIMBERLY JO for shipment to Wallops Island, Virginia.
@NASASpaceflight
Rocket L🅰️d / dutch1664 retweeted
Videos I captured of the thrust structure move and lift this morning. (Shout out to my dad for letting me borrow his camera so I could use mine for photos. 2nd videos was captured using my camera).
Rocket L🅰️d / dutch1664 retweeted
Rocket Lab Space Structures Complex Update 5
October 26, 2026
Middle River, Maryland
Round 2!!
More hardware has made its way to the lagoon for loading onto the barge!
@NASASpaceflight – at Middle River, MD
Rocket L🅰️d / dutch1664 retweeted
Roll out solar arrays will be installed during next week's spacewalk. You can see two of them folded and ready to be installed and you can also see how they look when they are installed (look in front of the big ones - the new ones are smaller and slightly tilted).
Rocket L🅰️d / dutch1664 retweeted
Rocket Lab Space Structures Complex Update
October 26, 2026
Middle River, Maryland
Good morning! We have our first look of the wrapped Neutron hardware loaded on the trailer before heading over to the lagoon! It will soon be loaded onto a barge for shipment down to Wallops Island.
@NASASpaceflight – at Middle River, MD
Rocket L🅰️d / dutch1664 retweeted
$IRDM / $RKLB: A new federal filing shows the U.S. Navy added funding in July to its sole-source research contract with Iridium.
The contract is with Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, the Navy's weapons and combat systems lab. It covers experimental defense R&D on Iridium satellite communications, plus satellite and hardware support. The Navy chose Iridium as the only company that could do the work, with no bidding.
The contract has been extended through May 2027, with an option to run into 2028.
Iridiums' Greg Pelton “Once we get customers, we never lose them”
My take: Rocket Lab/Iridum want to dominate in IoT and their true global unified coverage and L-band is their USP.
The future of IoT is going to expand beyond sensor type devices and includes Drones, Robots, Machinery, Vehicles etc. These devices will have a TT&C equivalent level connection as well as a high-bandwidth connection. Think of a Yacht that's equipped with both Starlink for high speed internet and Iridium for emergency comms, PNT, etc. Apply the same to Drones, Robots, Autonomous vehicles, etc. Rocket Lab will own this high reliability, mission critical layer by both selling both the chips and providing the service.
This is the same approach as seen in the Maxwell demo. Rocket Lab is securing their place at the infrastructure layer. You don't need a single big payload when you're built in at the device level. Small, consistent revenue, across a huge user base.
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Notes:
Greg Pelton:
Cost/Size/Weight/Power basis = Iridium best IoT solution in the world
True 100% global coverage
99.999% reliability
Iridiums Narrow Band IoT upgrades (NTN-Direct) accepted into 3GPPP Standards Release 19 (5G -> 5.5G upgrades ~2026).
Expanded testing in Q4 '26; Commercial availability early 2027
Partnerships: AWS=scalable; Deutsche Telekom, (+Vodafone IoT?), Syniverse; Nordic Semiconductor
Single commercial downlink; single gov downlink
Brian Aziz:
Iridium:
20 years in IoT.
Old barrier: proprietary receiver
New case: Standard built into 5G/3GPPP tools
1SKU = multiple paths to connect (sat
GSMA roaming agreements. Low barrier to entry for customers. 55+ partners pushing NTN globally.
Highlights Deutsch Telekom/Toyota demo. Live voice message. SOS level for autos.
Use cases mentioned: Heavy equipment, oil and gas, vehicles, assets, safety, compliance, utilities, containers, livestock tracking, wildlife (sharks, elephants, giraffes in use today), power lines.
Rocket L🅰️d / dutch1664 retweeted
How can low cost uncrewed systems access assured PNT?
The only LEO-based alternative positioning, navigation, and timing service available today, Iridium PNT provides a trusted layer of resilience for #autonomous vehicles on land, at sea, or in the air → bit.ly/4i46F9q
Lots to learn. Lock in 👇
Doing a space on neutron more to the technical side and what we need to see ahead of flight 1 etc.
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