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Download the complete funding-round history, the supply-chain relationship and BOM-risk tables, and the Space Score time series as CSV or JSON: every row, no page cap. The same data stays free to read on the site; Research is what makes it usable in a model.
Save a basket of companies and get its concentration by supply-chain tier and country, the BOM risk items and shortages that touch it, and the single-source dependencies underneath it. It runs on a curated sample, not a complete map: 63 companies and 30 supplier relationships written with an AI assistant from its general knowledge, not from cited sources, last reviewed for errors 2026-03-25. Treat it as an illustration, not sourced research. A holding outside the sample shows as unmatched, never as risk-free.
The daily Space Score time series with the per-pillar breakdown and the methodology version behind every reading. History starts the day snapshots began (2026-09-23) and is not backfilled. The methodology was revised several times in its first weeks, and readings are comparable only within one version, so the comparable series is short today and grows a day at a time; the workspace and the export mark every version boundary.
Multi-criteria screens across funding rounds, Space Score and sector, saved to your account, with an optional weekly email that fires only when the result set actually changes.
A dated quarterly built from our own data: funding by sector and round type, the largest rounds and the hiring-index delta, with every figure traceable to the rows behind it. Space Score movers start with the first quarter fully covered by daily snapshots (Q4 2026, published in January 2027).
The seven named, dated releases (Most Active Investors, Launch Cadence & Slip, Supply-Chain Concentration, Hiring Index, Space Score Top 25, Federal Space Awards and Space Insider Activity) each publish a public summary with the top of every table. Research is the complete row set and its CSV and JSON exports, with the citation, the method and the coverage limits attached to the file.
Every prime federal award we can attribute to a tracked space company, from USAspending.gov: obligated dollars, awarding agency and sub-agency, award type, period of performance, the government’s own space product/service code, and a link to the record for each one. Screen it by company, agency, date, size and space-coded-only (which for a diversified prime is the difference between its space business and its whole federal book), then export the rows. Prime awards only, obligated dollars rather than announced ceilings, and nothing classified: the coverage limits ship with every download.
Every Form 4 and Form 5 transaction line we parse for the listed space names (insider, role, code, shares, price, value and a link to the filing) plus Schedule 13D/G holders of 5% or more and the full EDGAR filing index behind them. Open-market purchases and sales (codes P and S) are kept strictly apart from grants and tax withholding, which most datasets add together. Screen it by company and window, and export the rows. US-listed issuers only; parsed history begins 2025-01-01; this is disclosure reporting, not investment advice.
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Named releases on a fixed calendar, each one computed from our own rows rather than written. The summary and the methodology are public so the release is citable; the full row set and the export are part of a seat.
| Release | Cadence | Latest edition |
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| SpaceNexus Most Active Space InvestorsWhich investors led the most disclosed space funding rounds in the quarter, and over the trailing twelve months. | quarterly | Q2 2026 |
| SpaceNexus Launch Cadence and Slip ReportOrbital launch attempts, outcomes and schedule slippage for the month, by provider and vehicle. | monthly | September 2026 |
| SpaceNexus Supply-Chain Concentration ReportWhere the tracked space supply chain concentrates: by country, by tier, and on the suppliers most programmes depend on. | quarterly | Q2 2026 |
| SpaceNexus Hiring IndexOpen space-industry roles at month end, the month-over-month change, and which employers moved. |
Pull the complete round history for a sector into your own model, screen for the raises that match a thesis, and see what a target company’s supply chain actually depends on before an IC meeting.
Track where capital is going quarter by quarter, watch which suppliers your competitors and your own programme share, and get the concentration picture you cannot assemble from press releases.
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| Funding rounds (full history) | Every funding round we hold, from the earliest dated round to today, joined to the company profile. Amounts are as reported. A round recorded without a disclosed size keeps a blank amount with amountUndisclosed = true rather than being dropped or estimated. sourceStatus says whether a row can be checked: linked (a source URL), confirmed (checked against its source, verifiedAt) or unsourced-legacy (an older editorial entry with neither; it is kept and marked, never hidden, and it is left out of the free /datasets file). Filter on sourceStatus to reproduce the free file’s row set. Rows whose only source is Crunchbase are left out, as in the free file, and a Crunchbase-labelled row with an SEC EDGAR link is named SEC EDGAR Form D. sourceType says how the row was obtained (official-filing rows are parsed from SEC Form D), sourceRef carries the upstream reference such as the SEC accession number, and verifiedAt is when the row was last confirmed against its source (blank = not yet confirmed). capitalClass separates private rounds and grants from IPOs, listed-company offerings, tender offers, debt and acquisitions; non-space marks a private round or grant into a company not classed as space (a defense, aerospace, government or military company whose recorded subsector does not name space work, or a company with no recorded sector). A company counts as listed from its first trading day or SPAC-merger close (companyListedSince): a round dated before it is the company’s private history and is classed as private; where that date is not yet recorded, today’s listing status decides and listingDateNotRecorded is true. STATED BUT NOT COUNTED: a figure the source gave only as a floor or an approximation ("more than $1B", "about $50M") is kept in statedAmount with its wording in statedAmountQualifier; that round counts as a round, but statedAmount is NOT counted in any SpaceNexus dollar total, and amountUsd stays blank. stage is a normalised stage (Pre-seed to Series D and later, growth, convertible, and the non-round classes) beside the raw seriesLabel. smallFormDSale flags disclosed SEC Form D sales under $250,000, which are counted under our rules. classificationReason says in plain words why a row is or is not counted, and note carries the reader-facing provenance; our internal review log is not part of the file. |
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| SpaceNexus Space Score Top 25The twenty-five highest-scoring tracked space companies on the 0–1000 Space Score, computed daily from SpaceNexus data. | quarterly | Q3 2026 |
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| SpaceNexus Federal Space AwardsWhich tracked space companies won US federal money in the quarter, from which agencies, and how concentrated that money is. | quarterly | Q2 2026 |
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| SpaceNexus Space Insider ActivityWhat company insiders and 5% holders filed with the SEC on the listed space names this month, and how much each issuer filed. | monthly | August 2026 |
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Every edition and its archive lives on the release calendar, where a release that has missed its date is shown as overdue rather than quietly skipped.
A live briefing call for seat holders is built and waiting on a date. Nothing on this page promises one until it is scheduled: you can see the state of it on the call page.
| Raising now: announced and reported raises in progress | Raises that space companies have said they are seeking, planning or have launched, or that publications report they are in talks about or hold a term sheet for. These are INTENTIONS, NOT COMPLETED ROUNDS: none is a row of the funding-rounds export and none is counted in any SpaceNexus funding total, quarterly figure or Space Score. basis says who states it ("company-says": the company, an executive, its release or filing; "reported": a publication, with unnamedSources = true when it cites unnamed sources). targetAmount is the figure the source states, in its own currency, with amountQualifier kept ("approximate" = about, "ceiling" = up to, "floor" = at least); targetAmountUsd converts it at the ECB reference rate of the report date for filtering only. quote is the statement verbatim. status: "open"; "closed" when a matching round was later recorded (closedRoundId is that round in the funding-rounds export); "stale" when no report has been seen for 12 months ("no close reported since"). Coverage starts with the funding-news pipeline (September 2026) and what it recovered from our stored news history; items from company newsrooms and press releases are included, sponsored and partner content never is. Not investment advice. |
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| Supply-chain companies | Curated sample, not a complete map: 63 companies and 30 supplier relationships. How it was made: an AI assistant wrote these entries into our code in February 2026 from its general knowledge, not from cited sources, and they were last reviewed for errors on 2026-03-25. No relationship, rating or shortage carries a source, so treat the map as an illustration of how the supply chain fits together, not as sourced research. Company names and countries last updated 2026-10-07. A renamed company keeps its id and shows its former name in its name. Our curated aerospace supply-chain roster: primes and tier 1-3 suppliers with country, products, declared customers and suppliers, and a criticality rating. Curated, not exhaustive: it covers the suppliers that matter to Western launch, satellite and station programmes. |
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| Supply-chain relationships | Curated sample, not a complete map: 63 companies and 30 supplier relationships. How it was made: an AI assistant wrote these entries into our code in February 2026 from its general knowledge, not from cited sources, and they were last reviewed for errors on 2026-03-25. No relationship, rating or shortage carries a source, so treat the map as an illustration of how the supply chain fits together, not as sourced research. Company names and countries last updated 2026-10-07. A renamed company keeps its id and shows its former name in its name. Directed supplier-to-customer edges with geopolitical risk and criticality as recorded in the map. No edge carries a source, and the map does not hold every relationship: an absent edge means the map does not record one, not that none exists. Annual contract values are not included: they were estimates made when the map was drafted, never sourced. |
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| Material shortages | Curated sample, not a complete map: 63 companies and 30 supplier relationships. How it was made: an AI assistant wrote these entries into our code in February 2026 from its general knowledge, not from cited sources, and they were last reviewed for errors on 2026-03-25. No relationship, rating or shortage carries a source, so treat the map as an illustration of how the supply chain fits together, not as sourced research. Company names and countries last updated 2026-10-07. A renamed company keeps its id and shows its former name in its name. Tracked material and component shortages with severity, affected products, named alternative suppliers and geopolitical drivers. Not individually sourced; dates reflect when the shortage was recorded in the map, not necessarily when it began. |
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| BOM risk items | Curated sample, not a complete map: 63 companies and 30 supplier relationships. How it was made: an AI assistant wrote these entries into our code in February 2026 from its general knowledge, not from cited sources, and they were last reviewed for errors on 2026-03-25. No relationship, rating or shortage carries a source, so treat the map as an illustration of how the supply chain fits together, not as sourced research. Company names and countries last updated 2026-10-07. A renamed company keeps its id and shows its former name in its name. Bill-of-materials risk register for orbital systems: component, category, risk level, lead time, primary suppliers, qualified alternatives and historical incidents. Written with an AI assistant in February 2026 from its general knowledge, not from cited sources, the same way as the map; it changes only when we edit it. The risk levels were assigned when it was drafted, not sourced findings, and the factors behind each one are exported with it. |
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| Space Score: current computation, every input | The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice. Every scored company (ranked or not) with its total, each pillar, and each metric's raw value and percentile, as of the last daily computation. Methodology v6; formulas, windows and sources at https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology. Blank metric cells are missing or not applicable: the status columns say which. When the total is computed, a pillar that applies but has no data counts at the roster median of that pillar (the median over every scored company measured on it); the value used is in that pillar's pillar_<name>_imputed column, so every total can be reproduced from the file. A blank score means no pillar is measured: no score, not zero. Scores are percentile ranks within the tracked roster, so they describe relative standing, not absolute quality. The provisional column is filled on every row, in words, when the file was built from a board held as half-loaded or served while a recompute runs (then methodologyVersion says which methodology produced it). The raw values of market value and share-price return are left blank here: for listed companies they come from public market quotes, which we do not redistribute. Their percentile, status and pillar scores are included. |
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| Space Score history | The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice. Daily Space Score readings, one row per company per day, with the rank, each pillar and each metric's raw value, percentile and status in its own column, and the methodology version in force. History begins 2026-09-23, the first daily snapshot, and is NOT backfilled: earlier dates do not exist and we will not invent them. Scores are percentile ranks within the tracked roster, so a company can move when other companies' data changes or when the roster changes, with none of its own inputs moving; the workspace marks those days. The methodology was revised several times in the first weeks of history, and each revision has its own methodologyVersion: rows under different versions must not be compared, so the comparable series is only the days under one version. The file opens with the versions it holds and the days each covers. The current leaderboard stays free for everyone at /report-cards?view=score. The raw values of market value and share-price return are left blank here: for listed companies they come from public market quotes, which we do not redistribute. Their percentile, status and pillar scores are included. |
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| SEC filings wire (public space companies) | Every SEC filing in EDGAR's index for the public space companies on the SpaceNexus roster that file with the SEC, from 2025-01-01, one row per filing, all forms (insider Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 included). category and headline are derived ONLY from the form type and, for an 8-K, the item numbers the company ticked (itemsDecoded spells each one out); nothing reads the document or judges it. capitalRaising = true marks registrations, shelf filings, prospectuses and 8-K Item 3.02 sales: capital raising by a listed company, which the SpaceNexus funding figures classify as public-market capital and never count as private funding (a shelf is not a sale; a 424B3 is often a resale by existing holders). pressReleaseUrl is the EX-99.1 attached to a results 8-K, found for 8-Ks filed within about 400 days of the wire first running. Companies listed only outside the US file with their home regulators and are not covered. Not investment advice. |
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| Earnings calendar and results (public space companies) | One row per company per reporting period. status says how the date is known: "reported" = results filed with the SEC (an 8-K with Item 2.02, or the 10-Q/10-K where the company filed no such 8-K; resultsUrl is that filing); "confirmed" = the company announced the date (sourceUrl is its announcement); "estimated" = projected from the company's own SEC history (the date it reported the same period a year earlier, moved forward 52 weeks; basis explains each one) and NOT announced. periodEnd is snapped to the calendar month end so 52/53-week fiscal quarters line up. reactionSession is the first full US session after the results filing (next trading day for a filing after 4 pm New York time). The share move in that session is shown on the free earnings page but is not in this file: it comes from public market quotes (Yahoo Finance), which we do not redistribute. Foreign issuers filing 6-K/20-F carry no results item and appear only when they announce a date. Not investment advice. |
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| Portfolio exposure | Computed over our supply-chain sample map and BOM risk register, which cover Western launch, satellite and station programmes. A holding we cannot match is listed under "unmatched" rather than scored as zero risk, and an absent supplier edge means the map does not record one, not that none exists. |
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| Data | Free | With a Research seat |
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| Funding rounds | 839 rows with a source, 12 columns, CC BY. Free funding file | All 867 rows (28 marked unsourced-legacy), 39 columns including the full investor list, capital class, sector, country and sourceStatus; screenable. |
| Recurring releases | Headline figures, method, coverage and the top 10 rows of each table (launch rows in full). Releases | Every row and column of every table, as CSV and JSON. |
| Federal awards | Per-company figures on company profiles and in the quarterly release. | 148,223 award rows across 139 companies; screen by agency, date, size and space-coded only; export. |
| SEC insider and 5%-holder activity | The monthly release summary. | 8,670 transaction lines; screen and export. |
| Space Score | The current leaderboard and every input. Leaderboard | Comparable daily history from 2026-10-07 (2 days under methodology v6). Readings since 2026-09-23 (16 days) span 5 methodology versions, and readings under different versions are never compared, so most of the earlier days are not a usable series yet. Every pillar per day, version boundaries marked. |
This is not a mock-up. Below is a live extract from SpaceNexus Most Active Space Investors, Q2 2026, read from our database when this page loaded: the first 3 of 54 rows in one of its tables, in the same columns and the same CSV a seat holder downloads.
Investors ranked by the number of rounds they are recorded as leading inside the quarter.
| # | Investor | Rounds led | Disclosed total | Median round | Sectors backed | Companies |
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| 1 | Washington Harbour Partners | 3 | $29.5M | $14.7M | analytics; infrastructure | Citra Space; Scout Space; Turion Space |
| 2 | Shield Capital | 2 | $176.7M |
| Quarterly sector report | Q3 2026 in full. Read it | Every quarter back to Q1 2015, CSV. Coverage before 2026 is sparse (a partial sample of the rounds raised), and each report states its rounds on record per year. |
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| Launch log, slip ledger, hiring index | Free, CC BY. Datasets | The same data (no paid difference). |
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| Saved screens with weekly change alerts, portfolio exposure, 5 named seats | None. | Yes. |
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| $88.3M |
| infrastructure |
| Star Catcher Industries; Starfish Space |
| 3 | Geodesic Capital | 2 | $62.0M | $31.0M | launch; satellite | Katalyst Space; Portal Space |
Generated by the same function that writes the download, over the same 10 columns: the file is wider than the table above, because an export is the wide version by design.
rank,investor,roundCount,disclosedTotalUsd,medianDisclosedUsd,sectors,companies,disclosedCount,largestDisclosedUsd,stages
1,Washington Harbour Partners,3,29494971,14747485.5,analytics; infrastructure,Citra Space; Scout Space; Turion Space,2,18000000,Series A; Series B
2,Shield Capital,2,176690329,88345164.5,infrastructure,Star Catcher Industries; Starfish Space,2,111690329,Series A; Series B
3,Geodesic Capital,2,62000000,31000000,launch; satellite,Katalyst Space; Portal Space,2,50000000,Series A; equityCite it as: SpaceNexus Most Active Space Investors, Q2 2026. SpaceNexus, data as of 2026-06-30. https://spacenexus.us/releases/most-active-investors/2026-Q2
What this edition cannot see: WHAT THE CAPITAL FIGURE COUNTS. A round reaches the disclosed-capital total only if it passes two tests, and both are read from fields the row already carries. Full coverage limits.
Every edition of every release is public in this form (headline figures, methodology, coverage limits and the top of each table) on the release calendar. A seat is the complete row set and its CSV and JSON.