- Visibility41
- Citations1
- Sentiment74
- Site quality80
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name SpaceX in 50% of answers, far more often than the typical company in its group, which is named in 3.3% of answers. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 209th of 2,047. The company's website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market: none named SpaceX. AI assistants named it in 30 of 60 answers (50.0%). The typical company in its group is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, SpaceX ranks 4 of 61 in its sector.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
61 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Low-cost alternatives to traditional orbital launch services in the United States”
I'll search for information about low-cost alternatives to traditional orbital launch services in the US.Let me search for more current information about emerging low-cost launch providers.Based on my research, here are the main low-cost alternatives to traditional orbital launch services in the United States:
Small-Lift Launch Providers
Rocket Lab's Electron orbital rocket has successfully completed over 75 missions as of January 2026, making it the most prolific small-lift launch vehicle in operation globally. Rocket Lab's Electron offers dedicated launch dates, orbits and mission profi …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Show every check, for your technical teamHide the checks
- study: 92.0%robots.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapNot met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesNot met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 0 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.spacex.com · 2,047 companies scanned
1 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US-listed.
- Is investing in commercial lunar transportation worth it for scientific payloads?
- Medium-lift launch vehicles compared to heavy-lift launch vehicles for satellite missions
- What are some non-traditional approaches to space transport for research payloads?
- Low-cost alternatives to traditional orbital launch services in the United States
- Options for deploying small satellites for earth observation purposes
- Alternatives to commercial providers for government satellite launches
- How do launch costs differ between commercial cargo missions to low Earth orbit and geostationary transfer orbit?
- Common causes of launch delays in commercial space transportation services
- What are the top commercial launch providers for satellite deployment in the US?
- Reusable rockets vs expendable launch vehicles: which is more cost-effective?
- How reliable are current launch providers for next-generation satellite deployment?
- Best options for human spaceflight services for research missions
- What is the typical cost to launch a communications satellite through a commercial provider in the US?
- Why do some payloads fail to reach intended orbit after commercial launches?
- Best ways to transport cargo to low Earth orbit for technology demonstrations
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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