Launch
Rocket Lab executed a successful mission for the USSF titled Victus Haze in which they went from ‘Notice To Launch’ in 16 hours and 42 minutes, after which they activated and readied their Pioneer spacecraft on orbit in the 38th hour of their 72 hour deadline window. [source]
Rocket Lab was awarded 3 electron launches for NASA’s PolSIR and TSIS-2 Sun-Earth science missions. [source]
SpaceX’s orbital re-entry demo mission titled Starfall successfully launched over the weekend, bringing with it Starbase Brewing’s Microbrew-2 demo payload. [source]
Firefly Aerospace acquired Space-ng to advance the future of autonomous space operations by leveraging Firefly’s space vehicle strengths with Space-ng’s vision-based navigation solutions. [source]
Spacecraft
Sophia Space raised a $7M SAFE and announced a partnership with Apex Space for an Orbital Computing Demo, bringing their total funding to date to $22M. [source]
Vantor announced a partnership with BAE to manufacture their Vantage platform. [source]
ReOrbit launched OrbitCloud R&D with a €4.6M grant from Business Finland. [source]
Irish startup Ubotica Technologies raised $11M to accelerate the commercial deployment of their AI-powered intelligence platform and expand their Live Maritime Intelligence service. [source]
Eclipse Space emerged from stealth with an ex-Starlink team to develop economical spacecraft buses for megaconstellations. [source]
Infrastructure
Starfish Space completed their long range rendezvous with Gilmour Space Technologies’ Elarasat. [source]
Astroscale raised $190M after reporting $71.1M in project income, nearly double their numbers from 2025. [source]
Boeing was awarded a $2B Air Force Contract for Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Satellite Life Extension Phase II. [source]
MDA was awarded a Canadian SAR satellite contract as part of Canada’s RADARSAT+ program. [source]
Umbra started selling their reaction wheels after announcing their expansion into component sales last August [source]
The first live intercept test of Golden Dome’s Dynamic Defense Autonomous Defeat (DDAD) directed energy missile defense system was conducted successfully. [source]
Business Moves
OHB began a $581M share sale with KKR to fund their expansion and acquisition efforts, and to support Rocket Factory Augsburg. [source]
Axios reported that Muon Space has begun to pursue a $250M round of capital. [source]
Symphony Space closed an over-subscribed pre-seed round led by Female Founders Fund to develop their modular space depot. [source]
Spanish startup FOSSA raised $10.5M to fund their international expansion and global deployment of their sovereign satellite capabilities. [source]
Tech Advances
SpaceX has started talking about expanding Starlink to a direct-to-mobile service, either by creating their own telecom provider, or are rumored to be targeting T-Mobile or Verizon for acquisition. [source]
Orbital Composites won a $1.9M TACFI from SpaceWerx to develop their AI and robotic enabled manufacturing facilities for high stress composite components focused on rocket nozzles. [source]
