✺ Space
SpaceX tracker, launches, and the new space race.
Astrobotic
Lunar landers, rovers, and Moon delivery services
Axiom Space
Private astronaut missions and a commercial space station
Firefly Aerospace
Small-to-medium launch, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles
Gravitics
Mass-produced space-station modules and orbital structures
Intuitive Machines
Commercial lunar landers and cislunar infrastructure
K2 Space
Ultra-large, low-cost satellite buses for the heavy-lift era
Relativity Space
3D-printed reusable medium-heavy lift rockets
Starlab Space
Free-flying commercial research station (Voyager + Airbus)
Stoke Space
Fully and rapidly reusable Nova rocket
Vast
Commercial space stations starting with Haven-1
Vaya Space
Hybrid-rocket small launch with green propellants
Apex
Productized satellite buses delivered like an off-the-shelf catalog item.
Blue Origin New Glenn
Heavy-lift reusable rocket from Jeff Bezos's space company
Impulse Space
Maker of orbital transfer vehicles that move satellites from drop-off to their final orbit.
Planet Labs
Daily satellite imagery of the entire Earth
Rocket Lab Neutron
Medium-lift reusable rocket for constellation deployment
Sierra Space Dream Chaser
Runway-landing spaceplane for cargo and crew
Varda Space Industries
Manufacturing pharmaceuticals in microgravity
📰 From the Desk
SpaceX Is About to Price the Biggest IPO in History
At a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raised, SpaceX's June listing dwarfs Saudi Aramco's record — and asks public markets to price a rocket company on a satellite-internet bet that loses money everywhere but orbit.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-09 · 6 min read
Low Orbit Is the New Land Grab
Starlink already owns most of the sky. Amazon's Kuiper is finally launching, direct-to-cell is rewiring the phone in your pocket, and the economics of putting thousands of satellites overhead have become a geopolitical contest no government fully controls.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-04 · 6 min read
The Year Starship Has to Land Itself
SpaceX's biggest rocket is past the proof-of-concept era and into the part that actually matters: catching boosters, refurbishing ships, and turning a sci-fi cost curve into a launch-market fact.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-04 · 7 min read
Mars Without a Plan: How America Lost the Sample Race and China Didn't
NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, SpaceX pushed its timeline back by a decade, and Beijing is quietly building the spacecraft that will actually bring Martian dirt home.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-03 · 5 min read
NASA Reached the Moon, Then Cut Its Own Budget by 25%
Artemis II flew past the Moon for the first crewed lunar approach since Apollo 17 — and weeks later the White House proposed gutting the agency that did it. The contradiction is the whole story.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-29 · 5 min read
The Year Orbit Became a Conveyor Belt
SpaceX is chasing 145 Falcon 9 flights while Blue Origin re-flies a booster and Rocket Lab readies Neutron — cadence, not spectacle, is now the metric that matters.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-28 · 5 min read
The Tug Boats of Orbit Just Got a $4.3 Billion Bet
While the rest of tech chases autonomous agents and humanoid robots, the hottest new-space startups are quietly winning by building the unglamorous plumbing of orbit — and hiring humans to do it.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-24 · 5 min read
The Sky Learned to Think Before It Sends
Earth observation's 2026 inflection is not sharper pixels — it's satellites that decide what matters in orbit and beam down answers, not images.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-19 · 5 min readNo discussions yet — start the first one.