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Lockheed Martin appears to be like to accumulate Terran Orbital for about $600 million

Terran Orbital’s banner above the New York Inventory Alternate on March 28, 2022.

Terran Orbital

Lockheed Martin submitted a bid to accumulate spacecraft producer Terran Orbital, the protection large revealed in a securities submitting on Friday.

The nonbinding proposal would see Lockheed purchase Terran Orbital’s excellent widespread inventory at $1 a share in money, in addition to pay $70 million for Terran’s excellent warrants and assume the corporate’s $313 million in excellent debt.

Collectively, the provide values Terran Orbital at just under $600 million. Terran Orbital inventory closed at $1.07 a share on Friday.

Terran Orbital didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.

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The small spacecraft maker went public via a SPAC in early 2022 at a $1.8 billion valuation. Like many area shares, the yet-unprofitable firm has been hit laborious by the shifting danger surroundings out there.

Lockheed Martin is already a major stakeholder in Terran Orbital, with a 28.3% stake as of Friday, having purchased in through the firm’s SPAC course of and again in late 2022.

Moreover, Lockheed famous in its letter to Terran Orbital administration that the protection large “continues to be Terran’s largest revenue generating customer accounting.”

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