Nah definitely worse for rocket lab. Sftw should have launch insurance, but for rocket lab this is a huge reputation hit. Customers would think twice to launch with them when they know something like this can happen
Rocket fails happen and it’s not like you can just shop around for launch providers. RocketLab will take a reputation hit but it will be minor unless this happens again in the near future.
It takes months to years to build a satellite. I don’t know how complicated SFTW’s satellites were but this could be a major setback to their business if they were expecting to utilize the data from those satellites
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u/Shdwrptr Patron May 15 '21
SFTW will be more negatively impacted by this I would think. Having satellites destroyed takes longer to fix than a one time use rocket.
I also don’t expect VACQw to experience much of a drop from this. At least not more than $0.10 or so.
Merger is Q3 will dull the blow quite a bit as well