What’s a space stock, anyway?

The second space race has birthed a handful of public space companies that finally allow investors to own their own piece of the new orbital economy. Yes, there’s newly public SpaceX, but there are also plenty of others, like AST SpaceMobile, Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace, and Virgin Galactic. Together, these companies form an emerging category: the space stock. Today, this new class might include as many as two dozen companies. An incomplete list includes Redwire, Planet Labs, Globalstar, Vi...