
August 18, 2026 — The Launch Crunch Reaches the Balance Sheet
Launch scarcity stops being a talking point and starts showing up in corporate strategy: AST SpaceMobile tells investors it may need to buy or partner its way into launch capacity after New Glenn's Ma...
18 Aug 16min

August 17, 2026 — The Launch Bottleneck: Who Inherits SpaceX's Backlog?
SpaceX has effectively closed its Falcon 9 rideshare book past 2028, and satellite operators from Telesat to Amazon are scrambling for alternatives — the main story asks who inherits the launch busine...
17 Aug 15min

August 16, 2026 — $60 Million Won't Break SpaceX's Satellite Grip
The Space Force pays five companies — Amazon Leo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab, and York Space — sixty million dollars to prove they can plug into the $2.29 billion SpaceX-built Space...
16 Aug 12min



















