Sana Pashankar
Space reporter for Bloomberg News based in Washington, DC, covering the commercial space industry, including SpaceX, Starship, NASA, satellites and launch markets.
SpaceX Limits Falcon 9 Bookings Beyond 2028 to Prioritize Starship
Bloomberg reports that SpaceX, fully booked on Falcon 9 launches through 2028, is turning away some customers seeking dedicated and rideshare missions beyond that date as it shifts resources to Starship. Sana Pashankar says the move redirects attention from the rocket that has dominated SpaceX’s launch business toward the vehicle central to Elon Musk’s ambitions for expanded Starlink service, space-based data centers, and human missions to the Moon and Mars.
SpaceX IPO Pitch Seeks $2 Trillion Valuation on AI and Mars
Bloomberg Technology’s Ed Ludlow framed SpaceX’s Nasdaq IPO filing as a test of whether public investors will underwrite Elon Musk’s farthest-reaching claims: a company seeking a valuation above $2 trillion, as much as $75 billion in proceeds and a $28.5 trillion addressable market built largely on AI, Starlink and Mars. Bloomberg reporters and guests said the filing asks investors to look past large losses, debt and Musk’s continuing control, while treating Starship and space-based infrastructure as central to the valuation case rather than speculative side projects. The program placed that pitch alongside Nvidia’s effort to prove AI demand is broadening beyond hyperscalers and possible OpenAI and Anthropic filings that could bring similar public-market scrutiny to frontier AI.
SpaceMob Investors Help Push AST SpaceMobile Toward a $25 Billion Valuation
Bloomberg’s Sana Pashankar reports that AST SpaceMobile’s retail backers, who call themselves the SpaceMob, are helping turn the satellite-to-phone company into a major public-market story. She argues the group differs from earlier meme-stock crowds because its members see AST less as a short-term trade than as a bet on direct-to-device satellite connectivity and the possibility of a much larger business. The segment ties that conviction to AST’s sharp share-price rise, while stopping short of proving how much the online community itself has driven the move.