Main Topics
Defense
USSF selected Anduril, Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics, GITAI, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Quindar, Raytheon, Sci-Tec, SpaceX, True Anomaly, and Turion Space for over 20 golden dome Space Based Interceptor contracts totalling $3.2B. [source]
USSF awarded $1.4M and $500K to Leidos and Maplarge respectively for battle planning software through the Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) Kronos program. [source]
The Pentagon released a budget request for $2.3B for Maven AI battlefield software from Palantir including a total of $58.5B tied to AI. [source]
The Pentagon officially ended Raytheon’s OCX program after years of delays and underperformance on deliveries. [source]
The Pentagon invested $1B in L3Harris Missile unit to boost key component production and prep L3Harris Missile Group for a stock market debut later this year. [source]
Communications
The FCC granted AST Spacemobile a cellular license to sell Supplemental Space Coverage through the 700-800 MHz frequency range partnering with cellular service providers to unlock Direct-to-Device data capability. [source]
The FCC declined a request to enable and allow Mobile Space Spectrum sharing citing a desire to maintain strong incentives for innovation among the industry. [source]
Oneweb announced an order of 1300 more antennas / 400 more antenna systems from MDA to service their 340 satellite constellation built on Airbus platforms. [source]
Oneweb announced future versions of their satellite would add hosted payloads to their product offerings. [source]
Danish GomSpace and Ukrainian STETMAN formed the UASAT joint venture focused on developing sovereign dual-use satellite capabilities for Ukraine. [source]
The Polish Ministry of Defense signed an agreement with Thales and Airbus to develop a military GEO communications satellite with RADMOR. [source]
Interplanetary
The US Space Force created the Cislunar Coordination Office led by Jaime Stearns to develop and maintain the logistics and coordination efforts necessary to support and protect lunar projects and installations. [source]
Benchmark selected by DARPA for NASA’s LASSO (Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter) program feasibility study to search for and map lunar in situ resources. [source]
SpaceX awarded $175.7M to launch ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars in 2028 to search for evidence of past or present life. [source]
Rocket Lab announced a new High-Performance Star Tracker (ST-HP) for operation in increased-radiation environments such as GEO and Cislunar missions. [source]
Business Moves
SpaceX announced a $10B, partnership with Cursor AI that can expand to a full purchase later this year for $60B. [source]
China announced an $8.4B line of credit offered to startup Orbital Chenguang to build 16 sun-synchronous orbital data centers. [source]
Atmos Space Cargo raised a €25.7M series A led by Banlord and Expansion to build out their 3 vehicle Phoenix-2 fleet, develop their Phoenix-3 vehicle, and stand up ATMOS Works. [source]
Northrop Grumman disclosed that challenges with their Solid Rocket Boosters had cost them $71M in Q1. [source]
Spacebackend raised a €1.8M pre-seed round to bring hardware integration, testing, and verification all under a single software platform. [source]
Tech Advances
Univity received $32M to develop and deploy a pair of 5G VLEO satellites for lower latency, higher-resolution product offerings. [source]
Nordspace received $250k CA in funding to develop VLEO spacecraft for ultra-high resolution SDA and D2D capability. [source]
Astroscale announced the ISSA-J1 mission to rendezvous with two defunct satellites in separate orbits, demonstrating their extensive capabilities for orbital inspection and review. [source]
