Space Summit
Space Summit
World Technology Forum — Space Summit
SpaceX went public in June 2026, and within days its market cap hit $2.52 trillion — putting a rocket company within reach of Amazon, on the back of a satellite-internet business that now out-earns its launches. The Space Summit convenes the launch providers, satellite operators, agencies and militaries now competing for a $462 billion market that Falcon 9 no longer controls uncontested.
$2.52T
SpaceX's market cap within days of its June 2026 IPO
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Companies, agencies and programmes in the directory
8
Countries represented at headquarters level
$462B
Global space economy size, 2026 (Global Market Insights)
Launch costs have fallen roughly 95% over the past decade. That single fact underwrites almost everything else in this Summit — satellite broadband, commercial space stations, and a fast-growing military appetite for commercial orbital data.
Global Market Insights' figure, covering commercial and government activity together, broadly agrees with New Market Pitch's independent $470B estimate for early 2026. Wider definitions run further out: some analysts see the space economy exceeding $1.8 trillion by 2035, while Precedence Research's narrower "space technology" segment alone is put at $512B in 2025, heading toward $1.08 trillion by 2035. Commercial activity now drives roughly 78% of total space-economy revenue, with government spending — still substantial at $135B in 2024 — a shrinking share of a fast-growing whole.
SpaceX set the cost curve; Rocket Lab, Blue Origin and China's new methane-fuelled rockets are the first credible attempts to match it.
Starlink, Kuiper, OneWeb and AST SpaceMobile are turning low Earth orbit into consumer telecoms infrastructure, direct to an unmodified phone.
Axiom, Vast and Starlab are racing to have a station ready before the ISS retires around 2030; lunar landers from Intuitive Machines and ispace are already flying.
Space Force, the NRO and commercial trackers like LeoLabs are converging on the same problem: knowing what is in orbit, whose it is, and what it is doing.
SpaceX went public on June 12, 2026. Within days of trading, its market capitalisation had climbed to roughly $2.52 trillion — placing it within striking distance of Amazon and making it, briefly, one of the most valuable companies ever to list. The investment case increasingly rests on Starlink rather than launch: the satellite-broadband business generated an estimated $10.4 billion in 2025 revenue and passed 9 million subscribers, and is now SpaceX's most profitable division, expanding through a direct-to-cell partnership with T-Mobile. At more than 130 times trailing revenue, investors are betting the company's cost advantage in launch — built on reusable Falcon 9 boosters that have flown 20-plus times each — endures. That lead is no longer uncontested. Blue Origin's New Glenn flew its first commercial missions and won a NASA lunar cargo contract worth up to $468 million; Rocket Lab's Neutron nears its own debut; and China flew a record 83 orbital missions in 2025, with new reusable, methane-fuelled rockets explicitly engineered to match Falcon 9 on cost per kilogram.
Thirty-two launch providers, satellite operators, agencies, defense programmes and regulators spanning the industry from launch pad to orbit. Filter by category, or search by name.
Valuation, revenue and contract figures reflect the most recently reported financials, regulatory filings or credible 2025–2026 industry estimates, compiled from public filings, press releases and trade coverage including SpaceNews, Global Market Insights, Trefis and company investor communications. Private and newly public company valuations move quickly and may change materially after this page was compiled. Compiled for Summit convening purposes as of September 2026 and not intended as investment research.
Four threads run through the Space Summit programme, each mapped to the institutions in the directory above.
The cost-per-kilogram race between SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin and China's new reusable fleet.
Mega-constellations turning space into telecoms infrastructure, and the spectrum fights that come with it.
Stations, landers and manufacturing platforms building the successor to government-owned orbital and lunar infrastructure.
Space Force, the NRO and commercial trackers converging on domain awareness as low Earth orbit gets radically more crowded.