The Scale of Capital: Amazon vs. SpaceX
Amazon is now generating more free cash flow in a single quarter than the total capital SpaceX raised during the past 30 funding rounds.
Amazon is now generating more free cash flow in a single quarter than the total capital SpaceX raised during the past 30 funding rounds.
Satellite bus manufacturing used to be the domain of a handful of national aerospace primes. Over the past 20 years, however, two major startup waves have disrupted this status quo.
Companies that can beam down fiber-like internet speeds graduate from the niche legacy satcom market to the generalized consumer broadband internet market.
The International Space Station cost $150B (inflation adj.) to build, whereas a commercial space station is expected to cost between $2B and $5B.
Hate it or love it, the first six months of the year have summed up investors’ love-hate relationship with the sector.
Over the past decade, the number of active satellites has increased by an order of magnitude.
If Q1 introduced the promise of Golden Dome, Q2 was the mad dash to cash in on the hype.
But there are enormous technical hurdles that need to be overcome. So, we spoke to Starcloud and Sophia Space, two startups building data centers in space, to understand the opportunity and separate the fact vs. fiction.