According to SpaceNews, the commercial space sector now has enough billion-dollar companies to track. The publication maintains a running list of private firms that have reached 'unicorn' status—borrowing the billion-dollar valuation label from the tech industry. It's a telling marker of how quickly the space business has matured, with venture capitalists backing everything from satellite networks to lunar exploration.

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