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Nobody's Building From Scratch Anymore: Three Ways Space Companies Are Assembling Instead of Inventing

A merger, a new foreign subsidiary, and a Space Force contract for a maneuverability architecture don’t sound like the same story. But this week’s news from Elveo Mobile, Rocket Lab, and Space Kinetic is really one pattern showing up three different ways: none of these companies built what they needed from a blank sheet of paper. They assembled it, out of pieces that already existed and already worked, and combined those pieces in a way that gets them somewhere faster than starting over would have.