Space Business with Fexingo: Launch Companies, Satellites, and Commercial Spaceflight

Space junk is no longer just an engineering problem - it's turning into a genuine business. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the emerging market for orbital debris removal, anchored by a specific case: Astroscale's planned 2026 demonstration mission to rendezvous with a defunct Japanese rocket upper stage. We look at the economics of debris removal: the cost per kilogram of de-orbiting vers...

When a satellite fails in orbit, who pays the bill? In this episode of Space Business with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the niche but critical world of satellite insurance. They explore how a single major failure in 2024 — the total loss of a multi-hundred-million-dollar geostationary communications satellite — triggered a wave of premium hikes and capacity withdrawals that are still reshapin...

Episode 2 of Space Business with Fexingo dives into the customer side of the launch industry — the companies and governments actually buying rides to orbit. Lucas and Luna break down the three main categories of satellite buyers: commercial telecom operators, Earth-observation startups, and national security agencies. Using SpaceX's 2024 manifest as a concrete example, they show how one launch can...

In the debut episode of Space Business with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna zoom in on the most transformative economic shift in the launch industry: reusability. They break down the cost structure of a Falcon 9 versus an expendable rocket, explain why SpaceX can charge $67 million per launch while competitors struggle above $100 million, and discuss what the era of reuse means for satellite constellation...