York Space Systems: The assembly line factory for the Pentagon is now publicly traded.

In the USA, a billion-dollar IPO in the industrialization of space (New Space) is currently taking place. York Space Systems (YSS) acts as the industrializer of military and commercial spaceflight. The company specializes in producing satellite platforms (so-called "Buses") not as handcrafted individual pieces, but in mass production. In the context of US defense strategy, York is a key supplier for the "Proliferated Low Earth Orbit" (pLEO) architecture. This means that instead of fewer, more expensive targets ("Fat Targets"), the Pentagon relies...