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Space Industry News

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Blue Origin · Undisclosed round
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Blue Origin · Undisclosed round
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The Exploration Company · Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners
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Stoke Space · Series E led by Point72 Ventures , Spark Capital
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PLD Space · Series C
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SpaceX IPO 2026: The $1.75T Offering

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Artemis II Mission Recap

What we learned from NASA's first crewed lunar return — launch, flyby, splashdown, Artemis III implications.

Launch Vehicles

Starship V3: Flight 12 Preview

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Markets Desk

How America cornered the space industry

775 of 1,752 organisations in our directory are American — more than the next ten countries combined. Why it got that lopsided.

Markets Desk

The funding trapdoor

Of 1,752 directory entries, ninety have a disclosed market cap. The other 1,662 are running on something else.

Exploration Desk

Six probes still in flight

Europa Clipper, JUICE, Hera, Psyche, ESCAPADE, OSIRIS-APEX. Where they're going. When they get there.

Aerospace Desk

The launch market is now three rockets

SpaceX flew 134 missions in 2024. Everyone else combined did 119. Where the consolidation goes from here.

Markets Desk

The mega-constellation thirst trap

Eighteen mega-constellations announced since 2017. Two operational. One profitable. The math on the rest never closed.

Markets Desk

What a kilogram costs

Saturn V $11,400 / kg. Shuttle $24-60k. Falcon 9 $2,500. Starship target $200. The economics of access.

Aerospace Desk

The Soviet rocket that built the modern world

Korolev's R-7. 1,930+ flights. Sputnik to today. The most-flown rocket in history is still flying.

Markets Desk

GEO isn't dying, it's becoming a niche

For ten years pundits called geostationary's death. Instead it stabilised at 12-15 launches/year while LEO exploded around it.

Exploration Desk

Why Mars hasn't happened yet

Three decades of timelines. Zero crewed missions. The honest case against the slideware.