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Largest launch companies by market cap
Launch vehicles and launch services: 7 listed space pure plays, 5 of them priced from a US exchange listing. Their market caps add up to US$48.7B excluding SpaceX, or US$2.14T with it, as of Oct 2, 2026 close. SpaceX is 97.7% of the segment with it; the largest of the others, Rocket Lab, is US$44.2B, 90.8% of the total excluding SpaceX. 2 companies with no US exchange listing are listed without a computed value (International).
Segment total · excluding SpaceX
US$48.7B
Prices as of Oct 2, 2026 close. SpaceX is most of this segment's value, so the total is shown excluding SpaceX first.
Including SpaceX
US$2.14T
The list below starts with SpaceX included; its switch removes it.
Launch
as of Oct 2, 2026End of day| Tickers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)Priced on Nasdaq (SPCX) | SPCX | Launch | US$158.955 | ▲ +7.3% | US$2.10T |
| 2Rocket Lab CorporationPriced on Nasdaq (RKLB) | RKLB | Launch | US$73.91 | ▲ +4.9% | US$44.2B |
| 3Firefly Aerospace Inc.Priced on Nasdaq (FLY) | FLY | Launch | US$23.32 | ▲ +2.1% | US$3.9B |
| 4Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc.Priced on NYSE (SPCE) | SPCE | Launch | US$3.03 | ▲ +1.3% | US$459M |
| 5Starfighters Space, Inc.Priced on NYSE American (FJET) | FJET | Launch | US$1.72 | ▼ −2.5% | US$95M |
| International: no US exchange listing, so no computed market cap | |||||
| Avio S.p.A.Italy | AVIO | Launch | — | — | — |
| Innospace Co., Ltd.South Korea | 462350 | Launch | — | — | — |
, as of . The 1-day change is against the previous close.Market cap = shares outstanding (every class, counted once) × the last sale on the US listing (live while exchanges are open, the latest close otherwise) × the Bank of Canada rate.Methodology. Partial players are ranked separately and never enter these totals.
Other segments
- Satellite communications
- Earth observation and data
- Infrastructure and in-space services
- Defense space
- Components and ground
Every pure play together: the leaderboard. All segments added up, with and without SpaceX, and the total over time: space industry market cap.