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The companies on the road to Mars: a deal, an IPO, a valuation, a new ship and what it costs.
Space businessOctober 28, 2026
Meet Apeiron: Virgin Galactic's New Spaceship and Its Long Road Back to Space
Named by a public vote and unveiled today, Apeiron is the ship Virgin Galactic needs to fly paying passengers again. What a seat costs, where the company has already been, and how a stock that closed at $59.41 in 2021 came to be worth the same as about 13 cents.
Space businessOctober 15, 2026
Meet Starcloud, the Company Trying to Put Data Centers in Orbit
One satellite the size of a small fridge, one Nvidia chip, and a plan for tens of thousands more. What Starcloud has done, what it says it will do, and the hard problems in the way.
