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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with Rocket Lab to Expand Production of Compound Semiconductors that Power Spacecrafts and Satellites

| Department of Commerce (DOC), Executive Office of the President | In-space, Semiconductors

The Biden-Harris Administration announced that the Department of Commerce and Rocket Lab, the parent company of space power provider SolAero Technologies Corp., have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms to provide up to $23.9M in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act.

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