Rocket Lab, AST, Other Space Stocks Take Off After SpaceX’s Starship Blows Up - Barron's
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SpaceX's Starship Flight Test 12 ended in an explosion, sending competitor space stocks like RKLB and ASTS sharply higher on the thesis that SpaceX's setbacks benefit alternative launch and satellite players. The move is amplified by a separate catalyst — a NASA Moon Base event and SpaceX IPO speculation — but insider selling at both names and mixed consensus signal the rally may be running ahead of fundamentals.
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Wrong ifIf NASA announces a concrete ASTS contract at the Moon Base event, or SpaceX IPO speculation accelerates and lifts the whole sector, this short gets squeezed hard — ASTS has a history of violent momentum moves that ignore fundamentals for extended periods.
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