How Space Startups Survived and Investors Thrived in a Year of Unknowns
When the coronavirus pandemic put much of the world in lockdown last spring, the space startup community feared that venture capital would dry up.
But 2020 has shaped up to be another one of the largest years on record for space investment. By the end of the third quarter of 2020, for example, investors had poured a record $5.5 billion of capital into space infrastructure companies that build rockets and large satellites, according to space investment firm Space Capital.