Main Topics
Launch
Stoke Space announced an extension of their Series D financing round to $860M, adding $350M to the initial $510M raised in October 2025 bringing their total funds raised to $1.34B. This money is intended to accelerate the deployment of their Nova launch vehicle, and operationalization of the Cape Canaveral Launch Pad 14. [source]
ULA’s Vulcan rocket successfully launched 3 USSF-87 payloads, two military GEO-comm satellites and an RPO GEO satellite. During the launch, however, one of the solid boosters suffered a burn-through like the last launch did which could pause launches again for another investigation. [source]
Arianespace’s Ariane 64 had its inaugural launch for this 4 solid booster variant. 32 Amazon Leo satellites were successfully deployed. [source]
Hypersonica has emerged from stealth, announcing a €23.3M Series A funding round [source] and the successful completion of a hypersonic missile test out of the Andoya space port. [source]
Orbex has officially entered insolvency proceedings after its planned acquisition by The Exploration Company fell through, Skyrora has announced plans to buy some assets. [source]
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has completed an integrated flight test of its next-generation Mengzhou crew capsule and the Long March 10a reusable rocket. This test successfully demonstrated the in-flight abort capability of Mengzhou, and the landing capability of LM-10a. [source]
Interstellar Glory Space Technology (iSpace) raised a ¥5B ($729M) D++ funding round to deploy its reusable methalox launch vehicle Hyperbola-3. [source]
Habitats
Axiom Space raised $350M led by Type One Ventures and Qatar Investment Authority to develop their ISS replacement Axiom Station and Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit moon suits. [source]
Voyager Technologies was awarded a new IDIQ contract for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, with a ceiling of $24.5 million for a four-year period, to provide full-service mission management services to the International Space Station [source]
Vast has been selected by NASA for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Launching no earlier than summer 2027, the commercial crew will spend up to 14 days aboard the station. [source]
SpaceX sends Crew-12 to the ISS to replace Crew-11 that was evacuated due to a medical emergency about 6 weeks ago. [source]
Comms
Eutelsat has secured roughly €1B in export credit financing from the French government to procure the 340 OneWeb satellites ordered from Airbus last month. [source]
AST Spacemobile successfully deploys Bluebird-6’s 2,400sqft phased array, this batch was launched on an LVM3 rocket in December, with the next batch launching on the next New Glenn launch. [source]
Logos Space Services has secured U.S. regulatory approval to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites. The satellites will be a counter-jamming constellation operating in Ka, Q, and V bands across seven orbital shells. [source]
SDA operationalizes laser mesh network for PWSA mandating interoperability between all terminals and satellite providers. [source]
Apolink and Galaxia team up to improve planned data relay capability by leveraging an RF-optical hybrid communications system. [source]
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it was awarded a contract by the Japan Ministry of Defense on February 6 to construct the successor to the military communication Kirameki-2 satellite. [source]
Satlabs Space Systems secures $1M to develop inter-satellite link technology to enable real-time Earth observation. [source]
Business Moves
Constellr raised a €37M Series A led by Alpine Space Ventures and Lakestar. The investment will accelerate the expansion of their thermal intelligence capabilities and advance the system to defence grade status. [source]
Wardstone raises $5M to develop their space based interceptors that explode their interceptors in front of missiles to shoot them down. [source]
The Compression Company raises $3.4M pre-seed led by Long Journey Ventures to develop their compression algorithm that uses AI to reduce image sizes by more aggressively compressing homogeneous areas like clouds and water. [source]
UKSA awarded contracts to Space Forge, OrbiSky, and BioOrbit worth a combined $1.1M+ to advance in-orbit manufacturing of semiconductors, ZBLAN fiber optics, and cancer therapeutics respectively. [source]
Deep Space Energy closed their €930,000 pre-seed round to develop Americium radioisotope generators for satellites and lunar applications. [source]
Tech Advances
SatVu, HEO, and Sierra Nevada were added to NRO commercial solutions which pre-clears them to provide imagery to the agency. [source]
Scientists have developed a new deep learning framework, DeepLaDu, to optimize laser inter-satellite links enabling higher throughput. [source]
Starcloud announced a partnership with Amazon to launch the first AWS Outposts on their second satellite later this year. [source]
Spaceium successfully demonstrated their robotic arm on orbit showing state-of-the-art accuracy of 0.0003deg rotational accuracy, and 1mm accuracy at the tip of the actuator. [source]
Psionic and iMETALX Inc. partnered on space battle management software for the U.S. Space Force and Space Development Agency (SDA) leveraging Psionic’s object classification and tracking software. [source]
Momentus adds NASA’s R5 Spacecraft 10 to Vigoride 7, the cubesat will act as a free-flying imager for Momentus’ Vigoride 7 assessing spacecraft health and performance. [source]
General Galactic announced their water based spacecraft thruster utilizing electrolysis to provide hydrogen and oxygen as fuel for their chemical thruster. [source]
