Starfighters Space: Bootstrap Approach To Space Industry But Scaling Challenges

2026-04-20 13:17:34 ET

Starfighters Space Inc. ( FJET ) is a pretty interesting prospect in the panorama of space-related stocks. They have 7 Cold War-era aircraft (F-104) that are capable of reaching Mach 2 speed and, hopefully, launching even faster than that payloads that can get to the Karman Line and also into the exosphere, meaning that they believe they can address the market of launching small and micro/nano satellites into space. They have completed wind tunnel testing and are looking to test their launch in Cape Canaveral hopefully this year. But the execution challenges and the scale challenges keep us away, as the fleet of F-104 is difficult to expand and is essential to their relatively low development cost platform, which is the appeal of this approach to the launch market....

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