The daily space business briefing
A daily briefing on the business of space: what actually flew, what the contract is really worth, and who has customers instead of one enormous government.
New briefing every day · usually 12–18 minutes · AI-voiced, human-built
Latest briefing
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket finally reaches orbit from Norway, The Exploration Company banks Europe's biggest-ever Series C at $450 million, Eutelsat signs on for satellite life extension, and the White House's 1,000-launch-by-2030 policy runs into a very
Where the show stands
Spectrum, ground stations, collision avoidance, insurance. Rockets make better television, but this is the part that decides who's still flying in ten years. Insurers don't care about your render.
Roughly half of this industry's revenue is public money. So on every contract story: what capability gets delivered, at what price against the alternative, and whether anyone is left to bid the next round.
Every main story closes with a number — how much substance is under the announcement, one to ten. “Beautiful render, and not one signed launch contract behind it.” No hedging, no both-sides ending.
Two very different bets against SpaceX's reusable-launch dominance landed the same day: Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit on its second f
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Norway, becoming the first fully commercial European launch to make it to space — plus Cape Canave
Planet Labs posts a record quarter fueled by a defense and intelligence surge, but the four-billion-dollar pipeline behind it is still mostly a promis