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The Demise of Rocketplane

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Rocketplane, one of the NewSpace companies that tried to offer suborbital space tourism, quietly filed for liquidation in June. An excellent article in today’s Space Review analyses the decline of Rocketplane and its implications for other NewSpace companies.

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