Main Topics
Rockets
Rocket Lab announced a partnership with Raytheon and Anduril to execute on Space Based Interceptor contracts issued through Golden Dome. [source]
K2 Space was selected by Anduril to host SBI payloads via their high-powered satellite platforms to fulfill golden dome contracts. [source]
Seagate announced a partnership with Firefly Aerospace and Lockheed Martin to develop a customized Gateway sea-launch platform for Firefly’s Alpha rocket. [source]
Skyroot, India’s first Space Unicorn, raised $60M at a $1.1 Bn valuation to increase the launch cadence of Vikram-1 and develop the Vikram-2 rocket. [source]
Nayuta Space completed their Pre-Series A funding raising an undisclosed amount of capital to develop and launch their ADHL (Aerodynamic Deceleration and Horizontal Landing) Xuanniao-R launch vehicle in early 2027. [source]
Imaging
The US DoD’s Andromeda Program funding increased from $1.84B to $6.24B after extensive lobbying from some of the larger participants. [source]
Scout Space raised a $18M Series A led by Washington Harbour Partners, who continue to be very active in the space market. [source]
MDA announced 41 combined customers - 9 signed contracts and 32 LOIs - for their CHORUS constellation including C and X band SAR data coming from mid-inclination orbits. [source]
Earthdaily won a $1.2M NRO contract to support the use of commercial spectral imaging under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements (SCE) Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO). [source]
LiveEO raised a €28M+ round, bringing their total capital raised to €72M, to scale its AI powered monitoring platform and achieve 35cm resolution on their 3D stereoscopic imagery. [source]
Ororatech launched 4 Hellenic fire control satellites on CAS500-2 and successfully commissioned them over the past week, establishing the world’s first nationalized satellite system exclusively for wildfire tracking. [source]
Taylor Geospatial unveiled a global map of every agricultural field developed in partnership with the Microsoft AI for Good Lab. [source]
Advanced Space Systems
Rocket Lab announced the intent to acquire Motiv Space Systems, acquiring both their robotics prowess and their specialized components, to be rebranded as Rocket Lab Robotics. [source]
Anthropic has partnered with SpaceX for Data Center usage for Claude including 300 MW of SpaceX’s Colossus-1 megacomputer and potential interest in developing multiple GW of orbital data center capacity. [source]
Pixxel announced a partnership with Sarvam to build the Pathfinder Orbital Data Center leveraging Pixxel’s space technology expertise and Sarvam’s AI platform for the 200kg project to launch as early as Q4 2026. [source]
Interlune won a NASA helium-3 extraction feasibility contract through an SBIR Phase 3 for $6.9M. [source]
Lunar Outpost raised a $30M series B to accelerate production of their advanced robotic mobility platforms and execute on their pipeline on the back of four consecutive years of doubled revenues. [source]
Overview Energy was awarded a USAF contract for the remote capture and transmission of solar energy to provide power resilience among DoW projects. [source]
Business Moves
Astranis raised a $450M Series E led by Snowpoint and Franklin Templeton at a $2.8B valuation with the goal of accelerating satellite production for commercial customers and positioning themselves as a New Prime via US Government Programs of Record. [source]
Hawkeye360 raised $416M with their IPO at a $3.15 B valuation, opening above the $26 offer price at $33.80. [source]
Polish smallsat propulsion company Liftero to IPO via NewConnect through the Warsaw Stock Exchange as an alternative to raising private capital for their next goals in growth and product delivery.[source]
Swissto12 won a German Partnership with the HPS/LSS consortium out of Munich for a GEO altitude D2D satellite. [source]
Viasat won a $307M marine corps satcom contract with the focus of providing global communication connectivity under the MECS2 program including bandwidth capacity and end-to-end managed services such as wireless and cell service. [source]
Tech Advances
Two Russian satellites operated within 10ft of each other on orbit as COSMOS 2581 and 2583 conduct the RPO, while COSMOS 2582 trailed the formation at roughly 100 km distance. [source]
