Space & Defense Coverage Rankings
Ordered lists from our own accumulated coverage, story volume, average impact, entity mentions, and high-scored headlines. These ranks describe what we cover, not which companies or products are better. Every figure is a live aggregate; see our editorial methodology for how topics, mentions, and impact scores are derived.
Most-covered topic: Geopolitics (549 stories). Most-mentioned entity: Iran (463 stories).
Topics by Story Volume
All-time story count per topic across 1,533 tracked stories. Related: coverage statistics · compare topics.
- 1 Geopolitics 549
- 2 Defense Tech 482
- 3 Aerospace 240
- 4 Regulation 102
- 5 Space Business 73
- 6 Launches 73
- 7 Acquisitions 14
Topics by Average Impact
Average editorial impact score (0–10) among topics with at least one story. Volume and consequence are different signals, a quieter topic can outrank a busy one on impact.
- 1 Acquisitions 7.5/10
- 2 Geopolitics 7.4/10
- 3 Space Business 7.2/10
- 4 Regulation 7/10
- 5 Launches 6.8/10
- 6 Defense Tech 6.7/10
- 7 Aerospace 6.3/10
Most-Mentioned Entities
Top 25 by distinct story mentions above our minimum relevance threshold, who our coverage returns to most often, not a quality or recommendation ranking.
- 1 Iran 463
- 2 Donald Trump 313
- 3 United States 258
- 4 SpaceX 230
- 5 Elon Musk 145
- 6 Israel 131
- 7 Strait of Hormuz 120
- 8 Anthropic 106
- 9 NASA 93
- 10 Pentagon 92
- 11 China 79
- 12 Pete Hegseth 77
- 13 Starlink 74
- 14 Russia 74
- 15 Lockheed Martin 67
- 16 Ukraine 58
- 17 U.S. Department of Defense 56
- 18 NATO 47
- 19 xAI 45
- 20 OpenAI 45
- 21 Boeing 45
- 22 IRGC 40
- 23 Starship 37
- 24 U.S. Central Command 34
- 25 Claude 34
Highest-Impact Stories
Fifteen stories with the highest editorial impact scores in this niche (ties broken by newer publish date). Impact weights regulatory, financial, and operational consequence, not headline volume.
How These Rankings Are Computed
Every figure is a live SQL aggregate over Space & Defense Intelligence Brief's own story and entity tables for this niche, never a syndicated league table or an editor-typed Top-N. Topic ranks use full-population COUNT/AVG; entity ranks count distinct story mentions above the relevance threshold in our methodology. Found a discrepancy? Email hello@getspacebrief.com.
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