Douglas Gorman
MP Space Raises AUD $23M to Scale Satellite Battery Manufacturing
MP Space’s batteries launched for the first time last week with an undisclosed customer on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-5 mission, and already the company has orders to support 500+ spacecraft.
Colare Raises $2.5M to Expand its Hardware-Focused Hiring Platform
Colare’s technical-assessment platform maps the requirements of a role, and recreates decisions future engineers could face on the job.
NASA Outlines the Details of Artemis III and IV Missions
NASA is still on track to return US astronauts to the Moon in 2028. On Friday, officials shared a progress update on their efforts, as well as the finer details of the mission plans for Artemis III and IV, targeting flights in 2027 and 2028, respectively. Long story short: NASA remains confident it can meet…
European MNOs Join Forces to Explore Joint MSS Spectrum Bid
Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Orange, and Vodafone plan to establish ground network infrastructure across Europe, and partner with an as-yet undetermined satellite operator for the D2D connection.
Xona Raises $250M Series D to Scale Commercial GPS Constellation
Xona’s long-term plan is to build a ~258-sat constellation to offer an upgraded commercial alternative to government GPS networks.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Send AI Compute Module to the Moon
Hewlett Packard Enterprise ($HPE) is taking remote working to a whole new level.
Reaction Dynamics Targets 2031 for Borealis Medium-Lift Launch
In the contest to build up commercial launch capabilities in Canada, Quebec-based startup Reaction Dynamics has entered a new weight class.
Exclusive: EraDrive Lands $13M DoD Award For Autonomy Module
EraDrive won a $13M DoD award, under which the Space Force will buy an undisclosed number of the company’s Era-Node vision-based autonomy modules.
Seraphim Space Investment Trust Doubled its Value in 2026
Seraphim’s major holdings—ICEYE, ALL.SPACE, D-Orbit, HawkEye 360, and Xona Space Systems, which together represent more than 75% of the firm’s portfolio—all had a great year, and that success has trickled upwards.
UKSA Taps ClearSpace for Country’s First Debris Removal Mission
The UK Space Agency is dressing up as a waste-management company for Halloween.
Reflect Orbital Buys Two Skyroot Aerospace Launches
Reflect Orbital announced the purchase of two launches today from Indian launcher Skyroot Aerospace.
James Shin, K2 Space
“As I begin to understand how much [impact]…things like cellular telecommunications, imaging, climate [research]…have globally—once I started to understand that, I was like, ‘Okay, this is definitely the industry that I want to work in,’” Shin told Payload.
Maximillian Bhatti, Basalt
Max Bhatti’s recipe for success in the space industry is one part luck, and nine parts hustle.
