Space & Defense Coverage Statistics

Original analysis of our own accumulated coverage — not a syndicated report. Every figure below is a live, real-time aggregate computed directly from our source-verified story record. See our editorial methodology for how stories are classified, scored, and verified.

1,347 Stories tracked
7 Categories covered
7/10 Average impact score
1,301 Distinct source publishers

Coverage by Category

Story count per category, all-time. Download full dataset (CSV).

Geopolitics
501 Defense Tech
409 Aerospace
203 Regulation
96 Space Business
66 Launches
59 Acquisitions
13

Volume vs. Impact: Where the Headlines Aren't the Story

Our most-covered category isn't our most consequential one: Geopolitics generates the most stories (501), but Acquisitions carries the highest average impact score (7.6/10) despite far fewer stories (13). Coverage volume and consequence are different signals.

Story volume → Average impact → Acquisitions Aerospace Defense Tech Space Business Geopolitics Launches Regulation

Sentiment Distribution

Directional read of 1,347 classified stories — the development's implication for the space, not the tone of the reporting.

Negative
34%
Neutral
32%
Positive
19%
Strongly negative
11%
Strongly positive
3%

Most-Mentioned Entities

Ranked by distinct story mentions, all-time — the companies, people, and technologies our coverage returns to most often.

  1. 1 Iran country
    369
  2. 2 Donald Trump person
    268
  3. 3 United States government
    199
  4. 4 SpaceX company
    193
  5. 5 Elon Musk person
    123
  6. 6 Israel country
    105
  7. 7 Anthropic company
    100
  8. 8 Strait of Hormuz location
    86
  9. 9 Iran company
    79
  10. 10 NASA company
    74
  11. 11 Pentagon organization
    71
  12. 12 Pete Hegseth person
    66
  13. 13 Lockheed Martin company
    63
  14. 14 Starlink product
    60
  15. 15 China country
    46

How This Page Is Computed

Every figure on this page is a live SQL aggregate over our own accumulated story and entity records — never a manual estimate or a syndicated third-party statistic. Category and sentiment figures cover all stories ever tracked in this niche; the entity ranking counts distinct story mentions above our minimum relevance threshold (see methodology). Found a discrepancy? Email hello@getspacebrief.com.

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"Space & Defense Coverage Statistics: 1,347 Stories Analyzed." Space & Defense Intelligence Brief. https://getspacebrief.com/statistics