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Category Space
Satellogic Inc ($SATL) Update Feb 19
Pure-play Earth observation and satellite delivery name listed on Nasdaq, riding a wave of new government contracts and capital raises. This report looks at the real size of the backlog, the evolving mix between satellite sales and data-as-a-service, the cash runway after multiple offerings, and where the risk/reward sits for event-driven traders.
Planet Labs ($PL) Space, AI and sovereign satellites after the 600% rerating
From “space small cap in free fall” to one of the most aggressive re-ratings in the space-tech universe, powered by defense demand, sovereign satellite deals and the shift from imagery to full-stack AI analytics.
War Ai and the X Ecosystem
SpaceX launches satellites, Starlink keeps front lines online, X shapes the information space, and xAI’s Grok is being wired into military networks. A new Pentagon contest for voice-controlled autonomous drones shows how these pieces are starting to lock together into a single, highly political war-tech stack.
Top 10 Space Mid & Small Caps 2026
A simple way to think about this basket is to imagine the space stack as layers: access to orbit, sensing, communications, infrastructure and exploration. Each of the ten names here owns a useful slice of that stack, often in niches that the mega-caps either do not want or cannot address efficiently.
Space Stocks in Free Fall
In the last 30 days the “space trade” has flipped from poster child of risk-on to textbook case of brutal risk-off. Launch, satcom and geospatial names are bleeding double-digit days, while some defense-linked players hold up. Under the surface, it is a story of funding, dilution anxiety, macro rates and a sector where AI and defense still pull in structural demand.
AST SpaceMobile Inc ($ASTS)
In January you saw the “National Defense Strategy / Deep Tech” macro piece: defense budgets, uranium enrichment, electronic warfare and reusable launch infrastructure all moving at once. In that map, AST SpaceMobile sits on the space-based connectivity layer: a company trying to build cell towers in orbit that can serve both civilian and military customers, at a time when governments explicitly talk about resilient communications, contested environments and independent infrastructure. This note takes that macro lens and zooms back into ASTS.
Golden Dome $PL $BKSY $SATL
For years, “space” was mostly a story about launch costs and broadband dreams. In 2026 the narrative is shifting: satellites are becoming the nervous system of a new defence architecture built around missile warning, tracking and resilient communications
2026 The New Era – Watchlist Space-AI-Defense
2026 opens in a geopolitical environment that looks like a “Cold War 2.0” – but running at a much higher speed and across more domains than anything we have seen before. Classic threat pillars – nuclear deterrence, air and sea control, conventional superiority – are still there, but they have been reshaped by disruptive technologies that make them far more lethal and unpredictable.
SIDU Sidus Space Inc
From “space-as-a-service” niche player to SHIELD radar contributor: what changed for Sidus Space after our first deep dive, how the December 2025 capital raise reshaped the runway, and why LizzieSat-4 plus AI/ML payloads make 2026 a crucial execution year.
LUNR Intuitive Machines Inc
Intuitive Machines is a Houston-based space infrastructure company working on lunar landers, cislunar communications and defense-focused satellite platforms. The stock is one of the purest public plays on the Artemis + Golden Dome “space infrastructure” theme.