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This rally is awesome! Space Stocks Rally After SpaceX Sets Record IPO Price at $135 Per Share 82.90
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ain't gonna lie didn't expect this much sell of in space sector when space x is doing good, hopefully bounce back next week,

Good to see u you Kairos. I just added MORE...86

Pickin' some here ... ASTS

I bought 88s

mm's flushed the whole sector down, getting ready to grab cheapies again for trade into launch next week

yep getting ready for cheapies again for trade

ASTS is launching 🚀 next week.

Space Stocks Rally After SpaceX Sets Record IPO Price at $135 Per ShareJune 12, 2026 6:23 AM
IH Market News SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) confirmed on Thursday that it had priced its landmark initial public offering at $135 per share, raising $75 billion in what has become the largest IPO ever completed in the United States. The Elon Musk-led company sold 555.56 million shares, giving the rocket, satellite and spacecraft group an implied valuation of approximately $1.77 trillion based on 13.08 billion shares outstanding. Historic Valuation Places SpaceX Among Market Giants The valuation establishes a new record for an initial public offering and immediately places SpaceX among the largest publicly traded companies in America. When trading begins on Nasdaq on Friday, the company is expected to rank as the seventh-largest listed business in the United States by market capitalisation. The valuation could increase further if underwriters choose to exercise their option to sell additional shares, a decision that is typically made within 30 days of an IPO. At its debut valuation, SpaceX is worth more than several established corporate heavyweights, including JPMorgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway, Eli Lilly, Meta Platforms and Musk’s electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla. The lofty valuation comes despite SpaceX reporting a loss last year and generating revenues that remain significantly below those of many other mega-cap companies. Sector Peers Gain Ahead of Market Debut Investor excitement surrounding the upcoming flotation lifted shares across the space and satellite sector in premarket trading. Satellite communications provider EchoStar (NASDAQ:SATS) rose more than 4%, while Viasat (NASDAQ:VSAT) gained 2.3%. AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) advanced 5.8%, and Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) climbed as much as 8% before the opening bell as traders positioned themselves ahead of SpaceX’s debut. The strong performance reflected broader optimism about the space industry and expectations that SpaceX’s market entrance could attract increased investor attention to the sector. IPO Smashes Previous Records The previous record for the largest IPO belonged to Saudi Aramco, which raised $25.6 billion during its 2019 market debut at a valuation of $1.71 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, Aramco’s offering generated approximately $33.2 billion and valued the company at around $2.21 trillion. Even so, SpaceX’s $75 billion fundraising effort comfortably surpasses all previous IPOs in terms of capital raised, establishing a new benchmark for public offerings. Starlink and Space Operations Drive Growth Story Founded in 2002, SpaceX says its mission is “to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars.” The company stated that its launch operations have been responsible for more than four-fifths of all mass sent into orbit over the past three years, highlighting its dominant position within the commercial space industry. In addition to its launch business, SpaceX operates the Starlink satellite internet network, which serves customers across 164 countries, territories and markets worldwide. Starlink currently generates the majority of the company’s revenue and has become a key pillar of its long-term growth strategy. Strong Retail and Institutional Demand Underpins Offering SpaceX took an unconventional approach to its public listing by allocating 30% of the offering to retail investors and determining the IPO price before conducting the traditional roadshow process typically used to market new share offerings. Demand proved exceptionally strong across both retail and institutional investors. According to Bloomberg News, retail demand exceeded $100 billion, while institutional appetite was also substantial. The Wall Street Journal reported that BlackRock alone submitted an order worth approximately $5 billion. The overwhelming interest highlights investor confidence in Musk’s vision and reinforces expectations that SpaceX’s stock market debut will be one of the most closely watched trading events in recent years. SpaceX IPO EchoStar stock price ViaSat stock price AST SpaceMobile stock price Rocket Lab stock price Want to stay up-to-date on the SpaceX IPO? Find the top asked questions from investors and follow their every move here: https://invest.investorshub.com/spacex-ipo-watch/ Original: Space Stocks Rally After SpaceX Sets Record IPO Price at $135 Per Share

nice 100's after hours :)

Institutions will be buying SpaceX all month.

agreed will see how space x ipo reacts tomorrow if it's sell on the event scenario will add more asts into the launch date

🚀 hype + 3 launches this month should get us back to $120..IMO

nice space sector doing good again asts lagging come on biatch go to 100's agtain

Every Space Stock Just Got a YardstickJune 11, 2026 9:05 AM
PR Newswire (US) Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc.A historic IPO is about to hand the orbital economy its first public price tag — and that single number will echo across every space ticker on the board.BREVARD COUNTY, Fla., June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- American News Group News Commentary — In private markets, value is whispered. In public markets, it is shouted — printed on a ticker, updated by the second, available to everyone. The commercial space sector is about to make that transition at its very summit. As reported, SpaceX is set to price its initial public offering in this window, ahead of a Nasdaq debut, and the figure it settles on will become the reference point against which the entire sector is measured for years to come. It is a fitting capstone to a stretch in which public markets have moved decisively to embrace space. Only days ago, the broad-market Russell 3000® Index confirmed its 2026 reconstitution would add commercial-space names — including Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE: FJET), effective June 29, 2026 — formally recognizing that the sector has grown large enough to matter to the market's broadest benchmarks. Pricing the giant and indexing its peers are two expressions of the same shift: the orbital economy is being assigned public value at unprecedented scale.From Private Whisper to Public NumberSpaceX has spent its life valued in the half-light of private rounds and secondary transactions. Its IPO drags that valuation into daylight. Having filed its public S-1 and applied to list on Nasdaq under the symbol SPCX, the company is reported to be pricing around $135 per share, at a valuation in the trillions, with a potential raise that at the high end would rank among the largest ever brought to market. (Those figures are as reported and remain subject to final pricing.) The valuation narrative leans heavily on Starlink, the satellite-internet business believed to generate most of SpaceX's revenue.What makes this a sector event rather than a company event is the benchmark it creates. The instant a public price exists for the orbital economy's flagship, every other space name is implicitly compared against it — its growth rate, its path to profitability, the multiple the market assigns it. A public anchor at the top changes how investors think about the price of everything below it. That is why the pricing of one company reverberates across an entire board of tickers.CONTINUED … Learn more about Starfighters Space, Inc. at: https://usanewsgroup.com/fjet-landingThe Spectrum of Space the Market Is PricingTo see why this repricing matters broadly, consider how varied the listed space sector has become — from orbital habitats to phone-connecting satellites to imaging constellations to advanced manufacturing. Four companies sketch that range.Voyager Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: VOYG) sits at the infrastructure summit of the group, developing the Starlab commercial space station intended as a successor to the International Space Station and recently agreeing to acquire lunar-delivery company Astrobotic in a deal valued at up to $300 million. With raised guidance and rising analyst targets, Voyager captures how aggressively the market is re-rating the companies building the orbital economy's largest structures.Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) runs one of the world's largest Earth-observation satellite fleets, selling imagery and analytics into agriculture, government, mapping, and defense. As a recurring-revenue data business riding on space hardware, Planet represents the information-services layer of the sector — proof that space value is not only about launch and hardware but about the data that orbit makes possible.AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) is chasing direct-to-smartphone connectivity from orbit, working with major mobile carriers and recently advancing both a North American spectrum settlement and a pending Russell 1000® Index addition. ASTS shows the market's willingness to richly value space companies aiming at vast terrestrial markets — here, global mobile coverage.Velo3D, Inc. (NASDAQ: VELO) provides metal additive-manufacturing systems that produce complex, production-grade parts across defense, space, and aerospace markets — a reminder that a sector-wide repricing also lifts the specialized manufacturers beneath the headline launch and satellite names. With first-quarter 2026 revenue up 48% year-over-year and a multi-year defense logistics contract, Velo3D anchors the production-and-supply-chain layer of the orbital economy. These companies are cited to illustrate the breadth of the space sector and do not imply any partnership, endorsement, affiliation, or comparable financial performance; they vary widely in scale and maturity.Starfighters' Place on the YardstickStarfighters Space approaches orbit from an angle unlike any of these peers. It operates what it calls the world's only flight-ready MACH 2+ supersonic aircraft fleet at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, pursuing an air-launch model in which a fast, high-flying aircraft gives a launch vehicle a head start in altitude and velocity — with the runway responsiveness and reusability that an aircraft, rather than a fixed pad, can offer. As a newly public and newly indexed company, it is exactly the sort of differentiated name that draws fresh eyes when a sector-wide repricing is underway. CEO Tim Franta described the Russell inclusion as an important milestone reflecting growing awareness of the company's differentiated platform.As always, perspective matters: Starfighters is an early-stage, small-cap company with a volatile share history, and a benchmark set by a trillion-dollar peer raises expectations as much as it raises visibility. The yardstick that lifts sentiment can also expose how far an emerging operator still has to travel. Both arrive at once.Why This Catalyst, Why NowA sector gets re-rated when something forces the market to confront it whole — and a record-scale IPO is one of the most powerful forcing events there is. Until now, the space category lacked a large, liquid, public anchor; valuations leaned on private marks and a scattering of smaller listed names too varied to set a standard. Pricing a flagship of this magnitude changes that instantly. The most-scrutinized space business on earth gets a visible, market-cleared multiple, and every valuation model in the sector must be re-examined against it. The argument-by-analogy era ends; the era of a public benchmark begins.This is precisely why the window around a mega-listing produces the sharpest, most broad-based moves in a sector. Sidelined capital finds a credible entry; crowded positions get rebalanced as the investable map widens. Launch providers, satellite operators, infrastructure suppliers, and specialists all get caught in the same wave of re-pricing. The investors who navigate it best tend to look past the giant's opening print and toward how the surge of attention redistributes across the names surrounding it.From Specialist Bet to Mainstream HoldingThe deeper shift is structural and durable. Reporting around the SpaceX offering has highlighted an unusually large planned retail allocation — an intent to place shares with ordinary investors rather than reserving them almost entirely for big institutions. Even setting aside the precise mechanics, the message is clear: the sector's flagship is being framed as a broadly owned, mainstream stock. Pair that with index inclusion pulling smaller space names into benchmark funds, and the destination is unmistakable — space is migrating from specialist mandates and venture rounds into everyday portfolios, index products, and retirement accounts.Mainstream ownership reshapes the sector's economics. It deepens liquidity, widens shareholder bases, and elevates the entire category's profile, which makes emerging names easier to discover, research, and finance. When the sector's giant becomes a household holding, the ceiling rises for every credible company beneath it. That is the compounding dividend of a watershed listing: it does not merely value one business — it enlarges the audience and the capital pool for the whole field.A Reference Point for a GenerationWhen SpaceX prints its price, the space sector inherits something it has never had — a public, market-set valuation at its core, a number every other company can be weighed against. Combined with the broadest U.S. index simultaneously absorbing space names into trillions of tracked dollars, the message is unmistakable: the orbital economy is now being valued in the open, by the whole market, all at once. The yardstick is here. What investors do with it will shape the sector's next decade.CONTINUED … Learn more about Starfighters Space, Inc. at:
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info @therooster-2873SOURCES:Starfighters Space, Inc. — "Starfighters Space (NYSE: FJET) Added to Membership of Russell 3000® Index" (Business Wire, June 3, 2026; inclusion effective June 29; CEO Tim Franta quote): 
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/starfighters-space-nyse-fjet-added-100000658.htmlFTSE Russell / Investing.com — 2026 Russell reconstitution detail ($12.2T benchmarked; Russell 3000 up 29% to $75.6T; rank day April 30; SIDU and OPTX also added): 
https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/starfighters-space-added-to-russell-3000-index-effective-june-29-93CH-4723661TECHi / Reuters — SpaceX IPO terms (S-1/A June 1; Nasdaq symbol SPCX; reported ~$135/share, pricing targeted June 11, debut June 12; figures as reported, subject to final pricing): 
https://www.techi.com/spacex-ipo/Bloomberg — SpaceX record-IPO scale (reported raise up to ~$75B; valuation in the trillions; would rank among the largest offerings ever): 
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-spacex-ipo-stock-market-nasdaq-listings/CNBC / Benzinga — Voyager Technologies (VOYG) IPO debut, Astrobotic acquisition, Starlab; ASTS spectrum and Russell 1000 addition; sector context: 
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/VOYGStocktwits — space-sector trading and sentiment coverage into the SpaceX pricing window (ASTS, PL, VOYG and peers): 
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The Day the Market Puts a Price on the Final FrontierJune 11, 2026 8:45 AM
PR Newswire (Canada) Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc.When the sector's largest company sets its price, every other space stock suddenly has a number to be measured against. That reckoning is happening now.Baystreet.ca News Commentary CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 11, 2026 /CNW/ -- Markets run on price discovery, and there is no more dramatic example than the moment a long-private giant finally tells the world what it thinks it is worth. As reported, that moment arrives for SpaceX around now, with the company's initial public offering expected to price ahead of its Nasdaq debut. The number it lands on will not just value one company — it will recalibrate how investors value an entire sector, because for the first time the orbital economy will have a public, market-cleared anchor at its center. That repricing is landing on a sector that public markets have only just begun to formally embrace. Just days ago, the broad-market Russell 3000® Index confirmed it is adding commercial-space names in its 2026 reconstitution — including Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE: FJET), effective June 29, 2026 — a structural signal that space has grown large enough to register on the market's broadest screens. The pricing of SpaceX and the indexing of its smaller peers are two halves of the same story: capital is assigning real, public value to space at a pace and scale the sector has never experienced.Putting a Number on the UntouchableFor most of its life, SpaceX could only be valued through the narrow window of private funding rounds and secondary sales — numbers visible to a select few. Its public offering changes that overnight. Having filed its public S-1 and applied to list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, the company is reported to be pricing its shares around $135, at a valuation measured in the trillions of dollars, with a raise that at the upper end would stand among the largest in the history of public markets. (All figures are as reported and remain subject to final pricing.) Much of the case rests on Starlink, the satellite-broadband arm estimated to drive the majority of company revenue.The significance for everyone else is the benchmark effect. Once the market sets a public price on the sector's flagship, every other space company is implicitly measured against it — on growth, on margins, on the multiple investors are willing to pay for a slice of the orbital economy. Some names will look cheap by comparison; others expensive. But all of them gain something they lacked before: a reference point. Price discovery at the top cascades down through the whole category.A Sector Being Valued in Real TimeThe clearest evidence that this is a sector-wide repricing, not a one-company event, is how broadly capital has been moving across listed space names — spanning space stations, direct-to-phone satellites, Earth observation, and the advanced manufacturing that makes missions possible. Four names map that breadth.CONTINUED … Learn more about Starfighters Space, Inc. at: https://usanewsgroup.com/fjet-landingVoyager Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: VOYG) has become a centerpiece of the 'space has never been hotter' narrative. The defense-and-space company is developing Starlab, a commercial successor to the International Space Station, and recently agreed to acquire lunar-delivery specialist Astrobotic in a deal valued at up to $300 million to deepen its Moon-economy exposure. With analysts raising targets and management raising guidance, Voyager illustrates how quickly the market is re-rating credible space-infrastructure stories.AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) is pursuing one of the sector's boldest ideas: a satellite network that connects directly to ordinary, unmodified smartphones, in partnership with major carriers. With a North American spectrum settlement and its own pending addition to the Russell 1000® Index, ASTS shows how the market is willing to assign substantial value to space companies attacking enormous terrestrial end-markets — in its case, global mobile connectivity.Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) operates one of the largest Earth-observation satellite fleets in the world, selling imagery and analytics to agriculture, government, mapping, and defense customers. As a data-and-analytics business built on space hardware, Planet represents the recurring-revenue, information-services layer of the orbital economy — a different and increasingly valued way to monetize space.Velo3D, Inc. (NASDAQ: VELO) supplies metal additive-manufacturing systems used to build mission-critical components for space, aviation, and defense programs — a reminder that the repricing sweeping the sector reaches the specialized manufacturers behind the hardware, not just the launch and satellite names. After posting first-quarter 2026 revenue up 48% year-over-year and reaching a positive gross-margin inflection, Velo3D represents the production-and-supply-chain layer of the orbital economy. These companies are referenced to illustrate the breadth of the space sector and do not imply any partnership, endorsement, affiliation, or comparable financial performance; they differ widely in size and stage.Where Starfighters Sits in the RepricingStarfighters Space brings a model that looks like none of the above. The company operates what it describes as the world's only flight-ready MACH 2+ supersonic aircraft fleet from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, pursuing air-launch — releasing a vehicle from a fast, high-flying aircraft so the launch system inherits altitude and speed, with the runway responsiveness and reusability an aircraft platform implies. As a freshly public, recently indexed company, it is precisely the kind of differentiated niche name that a sector-wide repricing tends to surface, as investors hunt for exposure beyond the obvious giants. CEO Tim Franta framed the Russell inclusion as a milestone reflecting growing awareness of that differentiated platform.The caution is the same one that applies to any emerging name: Starfighters is early-stage and small-cap, its shares have been volatile, and a benchmark anchor set by a trillion-dollar peer cuts both ways — it can lift sentiment, but it also raises the bar for what investors expect operators to deliver. The opportunity and the scrutiny arrive together.Why the Timing Is the Whole StorySectors do not get repriced on a random Tuesday. They get repriced when a catalyst forces the market to look at an entire category with fresh eyes — and the SpaceX pricing is exactly that kind of forcing event. For years, valuing a space company meant arguing by analogy, because the sector lacked a large, liquid, public reference point. Private marks were stale and selective; public space names were too small or too varied to anchor the category. The pricing of a trillion-dollar flagship removes that excuse. Suddenly there is a live, visible multiple attached to the most scrutinized space business in the world, and every analyst model in the sector has to be re-run against it.That is why the days around a mega-listing tend to see the sharpest moves across an entire peer group, in both directions. Capital that had been waiting on the sidelines for a credible entry point finds one; capital that had been crowded into a handful of names reallocates as the opportunity set widens. The result is a burst of price discovery that ripples through launch providers, satellite operators, infrastructure suppliers, and niche specialists alike. Investors who understand that dynamic tend to focus less on the giant's first print and more on how the repricing redistributes attention across the names around it.A Sector Pulled Into the MainstreamThere is also a structural dimension that outlasts any single trading session. Reporting on the SpaceX offering has emphasized an unusually large intended retail allocation — a deliberate effort to put shares in the hands of ordinary investors rather than reserving them almost entirely for institutions. Whether or not those specifics hold at pricing, the signal is meaningful: the sector's flagship is being positioned as a broadly owned, mainstream holding, not a closed institutional club. That ambition, paired with index inclusion sweeping smaller space names into benchmark funds, points to the same destination — space becoming a category that shows up in everyday portfolios, retirement accounts, and index products, not just venture funds and specialist mandates.For the companies in the sector, mainstream ownership changes the game. It deepens liquidity, broadens the shareholder base, and raises the profile of the entire category — which in turn makes it easier for emerging names to be discovered, researched, and ultimately financed. A rising profile for the sector's giant tends to raise the ceiling for everyone operating credibly beneath it. That is the quiet, compounding benefit of a watershed listing: it does not just value one company; it expands the audience for the whole field.The Number That Reframes EverythingBy the time the week is out, the space sector will have something it has never had: a public, market-set price on its single most important company. That number becomes the gravitational center around which every other valuation in the sector orbits. For investors, the pricing of SpaceX is not the end of the story — it is the moment the whole sector gets a yardstick. And with the broadest U.S. index simultaneously folding space names into trillions in tracked capital, the orbital economy is being measured, valued, and owned by the public market all at once.CONTINUED … Learn more about Starfighters Space, Inc. at: https://usanewsgroup.com/fjet-landingPOWERED BY EAGLE EYETrack the signal, not the noise.Eagle Eye delivers real-time investor intelligence — aggregating social, forum, and news data across the tickers that matter, so you can see what the market is talking about before it moves.Explore it now at Eagle-Eye.devCONTACT:Baystreet.ca

ASTS has been a candy store...🍭 

Yesterday was a great buying opportunity. Hope all picked up a few shares. 

https://share.google/hKJgsARvZpJVMRQUl

🚀 

i just bought shares down here for another trade can't help myself lool, will add more if test low 80's

Opportunity galore

now just riding the core position, into launch next week, also hopefully the space x ipo debut goes well. Been a great trading stock don't wanna play with fire lol.

AST SpaceMobile Advances Satellite Network Expansion as BlueBird Launch Date Confirmed (ASTS)June 9, 2026 8:41 AM
IH Market News AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) shares gained 5% after the company confirmed a June 17, 2026 launch date for its BlueBird 8, BlueBird 9 and BlueBird 10 satellites. The mission is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Launch is currently targeted for 2:39 a.m. EDT, with additional launch windows available through 4:15 a.m. The upcoming deployment will place the company’s next-generation satellites into orbit as part of its plan to build a space-based cellular broadband network capable of delivering voice, data and video services directly to standard smartphones. The new BlueBird satellites incorporate AST SpaceMobile’s stackable satellite design, which uses advanced carbon-composite structures intended to improve launch efficiency and accelerate constellation growth. According to the company, the latest generation of BlueBird satellites is expected to provide nearly twice the peak data speeds achieved by its first Block 1 BlueBird spacecraft. The earlier satellites recently recorded peak download speeds of 98.9 Mbps when connecting directly to conventional smartphones. BlueBirds 8, 9 and 10 each feature commercial communications arrays spanning approximately 2,400 square feet. The satellites have been developed and produced through AST SpaceMobile’s vertically integrated manufacturing strategy. The company said approximately 95% of the underlying technology has been designed and engineered internally by its workforce of more than 2,250 employees operating across over 500,000 square feet of manufacturing and operational facilities worldwide. AST SpaceMobile has established agreements with nearly 60 mobile network operators globally, representing a combined subscriber base of more than 3 billion users. Its strategic partners include AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Rakuten, Google, Bell, Telus, stc Group and American Tower. The company noted that launch schedules remain subject to change due to factors such as launch provider readiness, weather conditions and other circumstances outside its control. Original: AST SpaceMobile Advances Satellite Network Expansion as BlueBird Launch Date Confirmed (ASTS)

nice think it will get one more push into next week on space x hype, will be very surprised if this and rest of sector doesn't move on that. But man today is ugly all around lol, stock and rest of the sector at mercy of the market.

The shares I sold @ 125 now buying them back under 100 😁

dang missed the low 100's anybody got em?

114's chomp chomp

130+ coming AGAIN 

105's trying

overall market not being nice, iran just suspended all negotiations

Me 2....added

scooped some more, price acting like there was another launch failure lol

Huh??? The 3 launches this month are with SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets in mid June.  

The satellites are Block 2 BlueBirds.

I love Asts and own it… but I can’t for the life of me understand why they booked all of these launches with bezos…. Spacex and rocketlab are far more reliable.  Bezos just hopped on the bandwagon because of his ego…. He can’t compete with spacex or rocketlab.  I hope they launch with someone else.

Does anyone know if ASTS has any plan/contrac with Blue Origin to launch satellites for us?
gh

next week is a new week won't be surprised to see it back to 120 once the dust settle and market sentiment is green overall imo

It wasn't just ASTS that over-reacted to the BO explosion. All my space stocks reversed.

I've never owned shares but I made two more options trades today.. a July $125 long call and two $95 CSP's. Like the others, I'm pretty confident in the trades. And, if i moves like we al hope, I'll end up with 100 shares.

Capital Floods Into Space Stocks As STARLAUNCH And Hypersonic Programs Move Toward Commercial ScaleMay 29, 2026 11:53 AM
PR Newswire (US) Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc.With SpaceX clearing the runway for what could be the largest IPO in U.S. market history and the broader sector posting back-to-back contract wins, capital is flowing rapidly into the public space names building tomorrow's launch, satellite, and defense infrastructure.USA News Group Commentary CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The global space economy approached $613 billion in 2024 and is on track to cross the $1 trillion mark as soon as 2032, according to The Space Report from the Space Foundation. Capital is finally catching up to that growth curve. SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20 and is targeting a Nasdaq listing on June 12 under the ticker SPCX, aiming to raise up to $75 billion at a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion — a figure that, if it holds at pricing, would mark the largest IPO in U.S. market history by a wide margin. Investors are already rotating into the public names with real revenue, expanding backlogs, and direct exposure to national security space programs. Names like Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET), Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB), Intuitive Machines, Inc. (NASDAQ: LUNR), Firefly Aerospace Inc. (NASDAQ: FLY), and AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) are increasingly the way institutional capital is positioning ahead of the SpaceX listing window.The capital flows are visible in the data. Rocket Lab's contracted backlog has more than doubled year-over-year to $2.2 billion. Firefly Aerospace has guided full-year 2026 revenue to $420–$450 million on the back of Q1 revenue of $80.9 million. AST SpaceMobile has secured over $1.2 billion in aggregate contracted revenue commitments and holds approximately $3.9 billion in cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and liquidity. And the U.S. Space Force's Andromeda IDIQ — under which Intuitive Machines was selected as one of 14 awardees — carries a total potential value of $6.24 billion across the program. The pattern is consistent: government and institutional capital is being deployed at scale into commercial space platforms with credible execution roadmaps.Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET) is one of the newer entrants to that institutional rotation, and the Company just gave the market a fresh marker on its commercial trajectory. On May 22, 2026, Starfighters announced a $17.5 million strategic equity investment led by global institutional investors to support continued advancement of STARLAUNCH and broader commercial space development initiatives.The capital is earmarked specifically for operational expansion, infrastructure development, and continued advancement of the STARLAUNCH platform — Starfighters' responsive airborne launch architecture that uses its commercial fleet of MACH 2+ supersonic aircraft as a first stage. Near-term milestones disclosed alongside the financing include continued advancement of the STARLAUNCH platform with a targeted space demonstration flight timeline over the next 18 to 24 months, subject to regulatory approvals and program execution."This financing represents a strong endorsement of our platform and long-term strategy," said Tim Franta, Chief Executive Officer of Starfighters Space, in the Company's release. From an investor lens, that framing matters: Starfighters is no longer pitching a development-stage thesis. Since completing its IPO in December 2025, the Company has differentiated itself in the emerging market for flexible, high-cadence space access, with the recent completion of wind tunnel testing validating key STARLAUNCH system dynamics and reducing technical risk ahead of near-term commercial mission activity.Adding to the credibility narrative, on May 7, 2026, Starfighters announced the appointment of two senior leaders out of Blue Origin — Jose Arias as Vice President, Space Operations, and Catrina L. Medeiros as Director, STARLAUNCH Operations. Mr. Arias, who joins from Blue Origin where he served as Senior Manufacturing Engineer and Integration & Production Lead across propulsion system hardware, oversees all space-related operations for the Company. Ms. Medeiros, who comes from Blue Origin's New Glenn Stage 2 and Precision Cleaning Facility programs, supports execution of STARLAUNCH-related programs under Mr. Arias's direction.These are operational hires from one of the most demanding launch programs in the U.S. commercial sector.Starfighters operates the world's only commercial fleet of flight-ready MACH 2+ supersonic aircraft, based at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Company's STARLAUNCH architecture is designed to deliver flexible, high-cadence space access and satellite deployment across multiple commercial and defense markets — payload deployment, airborne aerospace testing, microgravity and high-speed flight environments, and reusable airborne launch infrastructure. The May 22 raise gives the Company the balance sheet to push that architecture from operational capability toward scaled commercial execution.In other industry developments:Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB) — On May 21, 2026, Rocket Lab announced a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command to design, manufacture, integrate, and operate two geostationary (GEO) satellites hosting the Heimdall space domain awareness payload. The award is Rocket Lab's first satellite production program for geostationary orbit and continues a Space Systems Command program for development and delivery on orbit of two Heimdall prototype payloads originally developed by GEOST, which Rocket Lab acquired in 2025 and integrated as Rocket Lab Optical Systems.The win lands against a backdrop of Rocket Lab's contracted backlog up 108% year-over-year to $2.2 billion and record Q1 2026 revenue of $200.3 million — up 63.5% year-over-year. The Company also booked a $190 million 20-launch block order from the U.S. Department of War for HASTE hypersonic test flights, and a separate $30 million HASTE contract from Anduril announced May 7. Rocket Lab has emerged as one of the most direct publicly traded ways to play the broader launch-and-satellite build-out ahead of the SpaceX listing.Intuitive Machines, Inc. (NASDAQ: LUNR) — On May 13, 2026, Intuitive Machines was selected by the U.S. Space Force for the Andromeda IDIQ contract, a 10-year, multi-vendor procurement vehicle with a total potential value of approximately $6.24 billion. Intuitive Machines is one of 14 selected awardees that will compete for task orders to design and field next-generation Space Domain Awareness capabilities — detecting, tracking, and characterizing objects in geosynchronous orbit. The selection significantly expands the Company's addressable government contract base beyond its CLPS-anchored lunar mission profile.Days later, Intuitive Machines was named prime contractor for operations of NASA's LunarReconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and the ShadowCam instrument aboard the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, under two three-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts — $15.5 million for LROC and $4.5 million for ShadowCam, totaling $20.0 million. Q1 2026 revenue came in at a record $186.7 million, with quarter-end backlog of approximately $1.1 billion. The combination of expanding government work and lunar data services has positioned LUNR among the most visible names in the SpaceX-IPO-adjacent trade.Firefly Aerospace Inc. (NASDAQ: FLY) — On May 26, 2026, Firefly announced a $75 million subcontract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to deliver four drones to the Moon's south pole as part of the agency's MoonFall mission, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028. MoonFall is part of the first phase of NASA's Moon Base — a long-term lunar exploration and infrastructure initiative designed to enable sustained human presence and expanded commercial activity at the lunar south pole. Firefly's Elytra spacecraft will carry the drones over a 45-day transit to the Moon and deploy them approximately 50 km above the lunar south pole.Firefly CEO Jason Kim called MoonFall "an incredible breakthrough mission" in the Company's release, framing the win as aligned with Firefly's track record of bold execution. On the same day, Firefly also commenced a public offering of 12,000,000 shares — 4,000,000 primary and 8,000,000 from selling stockholders — pointing to the capital-markets dynamic playing out across the sector: contract momentum is creating windows for sponsors and existing holders to recycle capital into the next phase of build-out.AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) — Q1 2026 results delivered on May 11, 2026 included a critical regulatory milestone: the FCC granted commercial Supplemental Coverage from Space authorization for the SpaceMobile network in the United States, enabling direct-to-device broadband connectivity in premium spectrum bands. The Company disclosed peak in-orbit data speeds of 98.9 Mbps using a Block 1 BlueBird satellite, and confirmed the next orbital launch — BlueBird 8, 9, and 10 — on a Falcon 9 in mid-June.AST SpaceMobile has secured over $1.2 billion in aggregate contracted revenue commitments from partners, was awarded a $30 million prime contract by the Space Development Agency for the HALO Europa Track 2 program, and is participating in the Missile Defense Agency's SHIELD program. Founder, Chairman and CEO Abel Avellan framed the quarter as positioning AST SpaceMobile to capture the direct-to-device broadband opportunity at scale. With a balance sheet of approximately $3.9 billion in cash, equivalents, and liquidity (pro forma for the convertible notes offering and ATM facility availability), ASTS is one of the better-capitalized commercial space names heading into the SpaceX listing window.Across the comparable set, the message from the past month of news flow is consistent: contracts are flowing, balance sheets are being topped up, and the public space complex is moving in step with the SpaceX listing thesis. Starfighters Space's May 22 financing puts the Company squarely inside that flow — with capital allocated to STARLAUNCH advancement, two senior Blue Origin operators newly seated on the execution team, and a roadmap toward future demonstration flights over the next 18 to 24 months. For investors building exposure to the SpaceX-IPO rotation trade, FJET is increasingly difficult to overlook.CONTINUED… Read this and more news for Starfighters Space at: https://usanewsgroup.com/fjet-landingCONTACT: USA News Group
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Bought some back @ 108

bouncing but not out of the woods yet, get past the opening drop at 113 chance for 120's again

this stock is not for the faint of heart lol, big swings both ways.

..next gap $98, WOW!, space selloff today, glta..

two upcoming catalyst launch on space x in two weeks, along with space x ipo in june, trade accordingly

grabbed 106's here trading shares panic selling in overdrive

..added the gap fill 19% down!..who'd a thunk? ASTS$...

yep broke 120 support due to unsuccesful launch attempt by amazon yesterday bringing whole sector down, trade accordingly. Will go back up once smoke clears

..You're everywhere!, huge gap fill though, gl.. ASTS$...

Sold all my shares today @ 125 that I bought in the 60s. Holding my 70's purchases for next month. GL

if it holds 120's in to the space x ipo date, 150's at least but 200's not out of the question if everything is aligned right along with the market and if space x ipo debut is successful imo

What's your guess on pps next month?