Vega C first launch
Companies offering small launch vehicles like the Vega C say that pricing pressure from SpaceX rideshare missions make it hard for them to make money on their launches. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG/S Martin

While demand for launches of smallsats is higher than ever, industry officials warned that price pressures and lack of access to capital could cause many companies to go out of business in the near future.

This post is only available to members.

Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...