Here Are 2 Space Stocks With Less Risk and More Upside Potential Than SpaceX

Instead, these 2 abstraction stocks tin beryllium to beryllium amended alternatives to SpaceX for retail investors.

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Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is already generating gross and is backed by a robust bid backlog, a past of launching rockets, and request from the defence sector. The institution is besides acceptable to articulation the Nasdaq-100 earlier the marketplace opens connected June 22. An scale inclusion tin summation visibility and make request from funds that way the index.

Rocket Lab's stock terms is down by astir 6.6% (as of June 18) from the time earlier the SpaceX IPO. While that diminution does not impact the company's concern case, it gives retail investors a amended introduction point.

In the archetypal 4th of 2026, Rocket Lab's gross roseate 63.5% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth to $200.3 million, portion its backlog reached astir $2.2 billion. The institution besides signed 31 Electron (rockets to motorboat tiny satellites) and HASTE (hypersonic defense-testing rocket) contracts, and 5 Neutron (upcoming medium-lift rocket for larger missions) contracts during the archetypal quarter.

The HASTE rocket is supported by a $190 million, 20-launch bid tied to the Department of Defense-backed MACH-TB hypersonic investigating program. HASTE besides accounts for astir one-third of Rocket Lab's motorboat backlog. Rocket Lab has besides signed its largest declaration ever, covering 5 Neutron flights and 3 Electron launches done 2029, without cutting prices conscionable to capable up the motorboat schedule.

Rocket Lab is presently trading astatine implicit 91 times sales, which is not cheap. But for investors consenting to judge immoderate valuation risk, the institution appears to beryllium a astute prime now.

AST SpaceMobile

AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) is gathering a outer web that tin link straight to mean smartphones, without users needing a outer telephone oregon peculiar hardware. AST has partnerships with astir 60 mobile web operators globally, and its ecosystem covers much than 3 cardinal subscribers. That could go a competitory vantage if its work works astatine scale.