Today we’re shipping Space Index Insights, a new section of the site at /insights dedicated to the rolled-up, hard-data view of the space economy. Live numbers, all sourced from public data, all linking back to the entities producing them.
What’s on day one
Four insight pages, each updating on every render against the live database:
- /insights/funding: Funded companies by sector and country. Counts of space companies with publicly disclosed funding, broken down so you can see where the capital is concentrating.
- /insights/federal-contracts: Top US federal space contractors ranked by total dollars awarded. Broken down by awarding agency, NAICS code, and calendar year. Data is sourced from USAspending.gov.
- /insights/launches: Launch cadence and success rate by operator, rocket family, destination orbit, and year. Data from LaunchLibrary2.
- /insights/geography: Where space companies are headquartered, by country and by US state, with the number of sectors each region covers.
And the /insights index page rolls up the headlines: total companies tracked, total launches, total federal contract dollars under coverage, and recent activity.
Why we built this
Anyone trying to make sense of the space industry runs into the same problem: the data is everywhere. Federal contract awards live on USAspending.gov, launches live on LaunchLibrary2, company profiles live on a dozen different commercial trackers, and none of it links together cleanly.
Space Index’s directory of companies is the connective tissue. Once a company is in our index, we can match contract awards to its name, launch operator data to its slug, sector tags to its profile. That makes a rollup like “top federal space contractors of 2025” not a one-off chart. It’s a query against the same data model that powers the company pages.
Every number on every Insights page links somewhere. Click a contractor name and you’re on the company profile, with its sectors, leaders, and a panel showing every federal contract we have on file. The numbers and the entities are the same data, viewed two ways.
What’s coming
A few directions we’re working toward:
- Per-sector deep dives at
/insights/sectors/[slug]: a focused view of one sector’s companies, funding, contracts, launches, and recent news in one place - Employment data once we have more uniform headcount coverage
- State-of-the-industry editorial pieces here on the blog, citing the Insights numbers and putting them in context
- An editorial pace: more analysis, less feature dumps
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