This week Paul and Harrison discuss SpaceX's $800 billion valuation and $1.5 trillion IPO target, driven by the Starlink direct-to-device market and the orbital data center play, an area seeing increasing competition from companies like Blue Origin, Relativity Space, Star Cloud, and Aetherflux. They also covered significant funding for K2 Space, the growing importance of Space Domain Awareness, the militarization of space with the US Space Force and IDIQ contracts for companies like Trace Systems, Momentus, and Proteus Space, and the expansion of launch capacity by SpaceX and the European Space Agency's $1 billion European Launcher Challenge. Further growth of the small GEO market was covered, along with advancements in space solar power led by Overview Energy and Starcatcher, IonQ’s investment in quantum technology, Rocket Lab's Neutron reusable architecture, and developments in satellite cybersecurity, data processing, and propulsion systems.

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