SpaceX reported its first quarterly results as a public company on August 4. Revenue rose 92 percent to $7.8 billion from $4.1 billion a year earlier, the net loss narrowed to $541 million from just over a billion, and Starlink finished the quarter with 12 million subscribers, double the year before. The stock fell anyway. The investor reading that result from the private side of the market takes the Satellite Innovation stage at Silicon Valley Space Week in October.
Alyssa Goessler Goodwin is a Vice President at AE Industrial Partners, the Boca Raton aerospace and defense investment firm founded in 1998, where her work covers financial modeling, due diligence, executing new investments and monitoring the firm’s portfolio. She joined in 2024 from McKinsey & Company, where she was a specialist leading the firm’s Global Space Center of Excellence. Before that she built a career in international security, working at the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Strauss Center’s space program. She is a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholar alumna in Arabic, a co-founder of the Boston Space Network, and a St. Gallen Symposium leader of tomorrow.
The program describes the session as top analysts reading SpaceX’s first public financial results and what they reveal about everyone else. The distance travelled is part of what they have to read. SatNews reported in December 2025 that SpaceX was targeting a $1.5 trillion valuation ahead of a 2026 listing, and in July that MoffettNathanson had initiated coverage at Neutral in a 93-page report. Whether a public mark on the largest company in the industry reprices the private ones behind it is the open question, and it is not an abstract one for the people on this panel. AE Industrial backed Sierra Space’s record $1.4 billion Series A, and Sierra Space took roughly $798 million of the $1.75 billion the Space Development Agency awarded in July for missile tracking satellites. Silicon Valley Space Week ran a version of this conversation in 2024, when Alexis Sáinz moderated a session on space mergers and acquisitions.
Goessler Goodwin joins “After SPCX: The Public Market’s Verdict on Space” on Tuesday, October 27, from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. in the Hahn Auditorium at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Sáinz, a Partner at Hogan Lovells, moderates. The other panelists are Mike Collett, Managing Partner at Promus Ventures; Dr. Oleg Demidov, General Partner at Beyond Earth Ventures; Sunil Nagaraj, Founding Partner at Ubiquity Ventures; and Karl Schmidt, Managing Director at KippsDeSanto & Co. The 45 minutes come after the morning break, which follows a market brief on the FCC’s new Part 100 space licensing framework, and they run straight into a technical brief on the hardware of orbital data centers.
Silicon Valley Space Week runs Tuesday, October 27 through Thursday, October 29 at the Computer History Museum, with Satellite Innovation across the first two days and the MilSat Symposium across the last two. Goessler Goodwin’s panel comes on the opening morning. SpaceX put $28.5 billion into capital investment in the first half of the year, more than four times what it spent in the same period of 2025.
Hogan Lovells, whose partner moderates this session, and KippsDeSanto & Co, whose managing director is among the panelists, are sponsors of Silicon Valley Space Week, which SatNews produces.
