Jack Kuhr

Over the past few weeks—with growing confidence in the Starship program—SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell and Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders have been publicly mapping out what to expect from SpaceX and Starship in the coming years.

Space is a nascent market with vast, unbounded potential, where an early-stage startup can become a dominant business integral to the very infrastructure of the space economy for decades to come.

Hockeystick SPAC charts. Wallstreetbets Reddit page buzz. Short squeezes. Everything to the Moon euphoria.

Space markets surged this year, fueled by robust VC investments in private markets and back-in-vogue space SPACs in the public markets. The good year for space investments is part of a broader bull market, where the prospects of a soft landing have sent speculative stocks soaring.

Axiom Space is reshuffling its space station module deployment plan at NASA's request, installing a power module on the ISS in early 2027 instead of its habitat module.

In 2024, US (*ahem, SpaceX*) launch numbers grew, while China, Russia, and Europe plateaued. Jonathan McDowell compiled the following data in his annual

Based on publicly available data from 20 launches with published payload mass numbers over the past three years, dedicated customer LEO launches have averaged just 3,370 kg of payload, just 19% of total capacity. (Note, the figure does not include rideshare, non-LEO, or classified/undisclosed payload mass missions.)

Wednesday's planned Starship launch may be the seventh test flight of the mega-rocket, but it also represents a couple of important firsts—the first flight of the new and improved second stage and the first time the rocket will attempt to deploy payloads.

Stoke Space raised $260M to continue developing its fully reusable Nova rocket and to complete the build out of its launch pad, the company announced yesterday.

The US launched 122 defense payloads in 2024, surging 184% YoY, according to data compiled by astronomer Jonathan McDowell. The National Reconnaissance Office's deployment of 106 SpaceX and Northrop-built Starshield remote sensing recon satellites drove the upswing.