The Space Economy

Why a space economy page exists

Becoming multiplanetary costs trillions, and somebody has to pay for it. The constellation overhead is the asset; the stock ticker is its price. This pillar — panel 02, "The Orbital Economy", in the live SPACE app — collects the publicly listed companies and funds whose work shows up everywhere else on the map: the satellites you can fly through in orbital infrastructure, the compute-in-orbit race in the orbital data center, and the Moon and Mars markers in space colonization.

This site is an independent, fan-built reference project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.), Elon Musk, or any company or agency named here. Its canonical premise — which this page mirrors — treats SpaceX as having listed on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, with its first trade on June 12, 2026. That mirrors public reporting: SpaceX priced shares at $135 and began trading that day on Nasdaq under SPCX (TechCrunch).

Not investment advice. Everything on this page is educational and for information only. It is not financial advice, not a recommendation, and not an offer or solicitation. Figures may be delayed. Verify against each company's official investor-relations page before any decision.

What you can see in the live Economy panel

Open the Economy panel (the chart-icon dock button) and you get a deck of cards — one per ticker — in a fixed order: SPCX, RKLB, ASTS, LUNR, RDW, PL, LMT, plus the UFO and ARKX space ETFs. SPCX renders as the hero card. Each card shows:

• A colored role chip and a TICKER · EXCHANGE label, so you know at a glance what the company does.
• An SVG sparkline of roughly the last 60 trading sessions, drawn by the site itself, plus a 52-week range bar.
• Tap-to-expand glossary buttons that define the jargon in plain English.
• An official investor-relations link for primary-source verification.

SPCX also carries a live lockup countdown. As modeled by the site (the schedule is internal to its premise, not an externally confirmed SpaceX disclosure), tiered 7% tranches unlock at days 70/90/105/120/135, with a full unlock at day 180 (around Dec 9, 2026) and a Musk/major-holder unlock at day 366 (around Jun 13, 2027), all counting from the June 12, 2026 first-trade date.

Who's building the space economy

The seven companies span the value chain — launch, connectivity, lunar landers, in-space hardware, Earth imaging and a diversified prime — and the two ETFs give sector context.

• SPCX — SpaceX (Nasdaq): launch, Starlink connectivity and, via xAI, AI. Per its S-1 as the app cites, FY-2025 revenue was about $18.7B (Starlink ~$11.4B, ~61%), with a net loss near $4.9B and Starship R&D around $3B. Primary documents: SEC EDGAR, CIK 1181412.
• RKLB — Rocket Lab (Nasdaq): the Electron small-launch rocket (flying since 2018) plus the larger reusable Neutron in development, with a backlog reported over $2.2B (Rocket Lab IR).
• ASTS — AST SpaceMobile (Nasdaq): BlueBird satellites for space-based direct-to-cell broadband to ordinary phones, with partners including AT&T and Verizon (Business Wire).
• LUNR — Intuitive Machines (Nasdaq): Nova-C lunar landers under NASA's CLPS program; in March 2026 NASA awarded a ~$180.4M CLPS contract for IM-5 on the larger Nova-D lander (eoPortal).
• RDW — Redwire (NYSE): in-space infrastructure — solar arrays, deployable structures and cameras; its Sentinel navigation cameras fly on Intuitive Machines' landers (Redwire IR).
• PL — Planet Labs (NYSE): a daily Earth-imaging fleet (SuperDove, SkySat, Pelican) sold by subscription; FY2026 revenue was about $307.7M, up ~26% year over year (Planet, Q4 & FY2026 results).
• LMT — Lockheed Martin (NYSE): a diversified aerospace prime and the contractor building NASA's Orion crew spacecraft, which flew NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby in April 2026 (NASA).

The two funds are benchmarks, not single stocks: the UFO Procure Space ETF tracks the S-Network Space Index of space pure-plays at a 0.75% expense ratio (Benzinga), and the actively managed ARKX ARK Space Exploration & Innovation ETF launched March 30, 2021 on the Cboe BZX Exchange (PR Newswire). ETFs are benchmarks, not endorsements — read the fund prospectus.

How to read the data — first-party and deterministic

Quotes here are first-party and computed on our own server, not embedded from a third party. A once-a-day GitHub Actions cron job fetches from Yahoo's public chart endpoint, builds a compact JSON (last price, % change, 52-week range and a ~60-session sparkline per ticker), writes it to Cloudflare Workers KV, and the site serves it at /api/econ and renders its own SVG cards. No third-party widgets load, and nothing loads off-site.

For SPCX, the engine prepends two sourced IPO reference prices — priced $135.00 (Jun 11, 2026) and opened $150.00 (Jun 12, 2026) — so the sparkline shows the real IPO-to-now trajectory; that seed retires automatically once Yahoo has six or more of its own daily closes. SPCX closed its debut session near $161, up roughly 19% from the $135 price (CNBC).

Each card carries a tap-to-expand glossary defining the terms that matter — market cap, 52-week range, lockup, revenue, EBITDA, ETF, ARR/subscribers, backlog, cadence, direct-to-cell, net loss and float — as education. For example: "ETF — a basket of stocks trading as one ticker; UFO and ARKX hold space-sector names."

The "discover opportunities" angle — strictly information

People come to a page like this to understand the sector, and it's fair to surface peers and ETFs as context. But the framing here is deliberate: adjacency, not endorsement. Comparison tickers are sector context, ETFs are benchmarks, and none of it is a recommendation. Quotes may be delayed and are for information only — not financial advice, not a recommendation, and not an offer or solicitation. Every card links to the company's official investor-relations page so you can verify the primary source: spacex.com, investors.rocketlabusa.com, investors.ast-science.com, investors.intuitivemachines.com, investors.redwirespace.com, investors.planet.com, Lockheed Martin's investor page, procureetfs.com/ufo and ark-funds.com/funds/arkx. Do your own research and verify on each official page before any decision.

Ready to explore? Open the live Orbital Economy panel to see the nine-ticker deck with sparklines and the SPCX lockup countdown — then jump to orbital infrastructure, the orbital data center, or space colonization to see where the money goes.

Disclaimer and publisher

UNOFFICIAL · NOT AFFILIATED WITH SPACEX · NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. This is an independent fan and reference project, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SpaceX or any company or agency named. Market figures are informational only and are not investment advice, not a recommendation, and not an offer or solicitation. No tracking or advertising cookies; only functional local storage stays on your device, and no personal data is collected.

Published by Asakasa Technologies SRL — Applied Intelligence Lab, Bucharest, Romania. CUI 54809478 · Reg. Com. J2026036098000 · EUID ROONRC.J202603609800. Canonical domain https://space.asakasa.org. Content reflects the state of the orbital economy as of mid-2026.