Who funds the millions of dollars it costs to build and develop stuff like this? There are dozens of companies doing this stuff and a reasonable chance that only a couple receive the government contracts to make money. I know that VC firms aren't in it to give away money and not receive anything back. So wheres the funding come from?

Innovation Endeavors, Airbus Ventures, Canann Partners and Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff ... and others.

They must like losing money.

This was a panel topic at the SmallSat convention this week. It was said the count is currently around 150 wannabe rocket companies. I’ve previously seen numbers double that, but I believe they included now-defunct ventures.

Most of the smallsat market is in fact commercial with a bit of institutional thrown in. Not a ton of government in the arena that I see yet.

Doug’s “and others” is a long list. The amount of money being thrown around in the space sector these days is astonishing.