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Europe’s surging space investment continued at the 2025 Council of Ministers, when member states approved a €22B budget for ESA over the next three years of agency operations, a near 30% increase from the 2022 budget.
Last week, we ran our annual poll in the Pro newsletter on the most attractive space investment sectors. Results are in
We finally have an answer for why Maxar Space Systems changed its name to Lanteris.
How hot is the current space investing cycle right now? Apex raising two $200M funding rounds in back-to-back quarters, kind of hot.
So, what is Rocket Lab cooking up?
The deal resets SpaceX’s direct-to-cell (DTC) 5G ambitions, reshapes the DTC competitive landscape, impacts downstream competitor vendors, and could redefine the relationship between mobile carriers and satellite providers.
This year’s get-rich-quick stock? Not Rocket Lab, not AST SpaceMobile, not Planet.
It’s GEO stalwart Viasat.
There’s threading the needle, and then there is what Firefly just did last week.
If Q1 introduced the promise of Golden Dome, Q2 was the mad dash to cash in on the hype.
