SpaceX has reportedly appointed a group of 21 banks to handle its upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO). The lead bookrunner banks are reported by Bloomberg to include Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citigroup. The other unnamed banks will include national banks for what the project which has the code name ‘Project […]

Analysts at Bryce Tech have examined launch activity around the planet during Q4 2025. Bryce says that during the three-month period SpaceX had a 97 per cent market share of the US market and 83 per cent globally. China came a very distant second with 8 per cent of global launches, and Russia took 4 […]

SpaceX had launched into orbit 865 satellites this year (as of March 27th). This represents 27 per cent of the overall 3,180 satellites launched in 2025, and completes three record-breaking months of this year. If this cadence continues, then SpaceX is on track to launch more than 3,600 satellites during 2026. But the record-breaking is […]

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s President & COO, is TIME magazine’s April 2026 front cover personality, and has delivered some valuable insights into SpaceX’s plans and expectations for Starlink and the company’s other divisions. However, she politely declined to say anything about the SpaceX Initial Public Offering (IPO). Some of her comments within the magazine were perhaps […]

OQ Technology, a Luxembourg-based satellite operator pioneering 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity through its direct-to-device (D2D) global satellite network, and its Greek subsidiary OQ Technology Hellas, has announced the successful launch of ERMIS-1 and ERMIS-2, two satellites built by OQ Technology Hellas, aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-16 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The satellites […]

Satellite operator Globalstar has been up for sale informally for some time. Now it seemingly has two potential suitors. Apple uses Globalstar to connect its own emergency phone services on some iPhone models. Industry analyst Dr Tim Farrar, in a blog on recent events, said that the sale process started in October 2025 with Amazon […]

There are many market rumours suggesting that Elon Musk’s SpaceX will mount its much-anticipated Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the next few days. However, there are some very different guesses as to how the IPO will be structured and what it might mean for the overall valuation of SpaceX, including Starlink. One report suggests that […]

A report from analysts at Quilty Space says that SpaceX’s Starlink broadband by satellite system has crossed 10 million subscribers and is now tracking toward $20 billion (€17.2bn) in 2026 revenue. “The business looks nothing like it did 18 months ago,” noted the report. Quilty forecasts that Starlink will achieve 16.8 million subscribers (up 33 […]

Just days after criticising rival Elon Musk for the SpaceX plans to launch 1 million satellites suitable for operating orbital data-centres, Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin rocket launch business has applied to place 51,600 satellites into orbit. Bezos and Blue Origin call the scheme ‘Project Sunrise’ and as one critic pointed out: “’Project Sunrise’ […]

Analysys Mason’s lead analyst Christopher Baugh, in a review ahead of the industry gathering in Washington DC for the annual satellite show (March 23rd-26th, World Satellite Business Week), says that the satellite and space sector is changing, from what was once a steady march of tech progress, to a rapid, multidimensional transformation driven by geopolitical […]