Recurring
Every ranking here is dated, permanently linkable and built from data we publish elsewhere on the site. Each edition states its method, links the edition before it, and shows rank movement only where a previous edition actually exists.
Quarterly
The space companies with the highest totals on a 0–1000 composite computed from our data across scale, government space demand, capital access, momentum and flight record.
Q4 2026 editionWeekly
Every Monday, the ten companies whose Space Score moved most, each with the inputs that moved it (hiring, federal awards, funding, launches), computed from stored readings.
This week’s moversMonthly
Which employers grew their open-role count fastest, from daily applicant-tracking-system snapshots across the companies we track.
September 2026 editionA ranking that invents movement is worse than no ranking. Where there is no previous edition to compare against (because the table is new, or the month before it had no qualifying data), the movement column stays empty and the page says why. Arrows appear only when they mean something.
Ties are shown, not hidden. Companies with the same value share a rank, printed as =8, and the next company takes its true position. We never split a tie by name; the order rows are listed in inside a tie is stated on each table and is not a ranking.
By SpaceNexus Data
Computed from SpaceNexus data - no model is involved in producing a release
Every figure here is arithmetic over our own rows (counts, sums, deltas and rankings), and the page and its export are built by the same code, so they cannot disagree. How this edition is computed
Week in Space Data, every Friday.