SpaceX

In the book

The center of the book. Launch, satellites, and the industrial system underneath. Reusable hardware and a closed production loop — the kind of stack that cannot be assembled from vendors overnight.

Starship is not a mission. It is a factory that flies. Vertical-E starts here: if space is going to be an industry, someone has to own the vehicle, the pad, and the cadence. This is the first vertical. Everything else in the book is read against it.