LEOTechnology

Slingshot Wins $13.3M Contract to Develop TraCSS UI

The Office of Space Commerce tapped Slingshot Aerospace to design the front door of its space situational awareness system, which will be a hub to help industry avoid collisions in orbit.

LEOScience

Satellites Face More Stormy Weather in 2025

A report from Space Foundation last week outlined how NASA, NOAA, and the commercial satellite industry are preparing to weather these storms.

BusinessMilitaryTechnology

Anduril wins $99.7M Contract to Modernize SPACECOM 

Lattice uses machine learning and AI models to help operators track objects in space, giving SPACECOM a more resilient space surveillance tool.

StartupsTechnologyVC/PE

Inversion Raises $44M Series A To Build Its Arc

Inversion plans to use these funds to scale up its operations to deliver a full-scale reentry vehicle on orbit by 2026.

BusinessEOInternational

ANT Partners with Pinkmatter to Fix EO Calibration

The traditional process of calibrating an EO satellite is a time-consuming project of trial and error.

BusinessEuropeInternationalLaunch

SEOPS Enters EU Market with Axient Systems Partnership

The partnership’s first launch will be an ISR satellite for the Dutch military, which is expected to lift off as early as 2027.

ScienceTechnology

Texas A&M Breaks Ground on New Space Institute 

The Space Institute will include lab and office space, classrooms, an auditorium, as well as two football-field sized landscapes that simulate the lunar and Martian surfaces.

ScienceStartupsTechnology

General Galactic Raises $8M Seed For Clean Fuel Tech

General Galactic wants to change the way the world thinks about the green transition, by using pollutants themselves as a renewable fuel source.

BusinessEquitiesLaunch

Rocket Lab Signs First Neutron Customer

The rocket is expected to complete a test launch in 2025, and fly three commercial launches in 2026.

BusinessStartups

Maine’s Plan to Build a Sustainable Space Industry

“Maine is more than lobsters and blueberries.”

BusinessTechnology

Space AI is Having a Moment

After years of AI changing the way people work on Earth, the tech is finally having its moment in the space industry’s spotlight.

DebrisStartupsTechnology

Kall Morris Inc. Begins ISS Residency

The system will prove out technology that could eventually grab objects on orbit, allowing KMI to move debris out of congested orbital lanes or relocate satellites that don’t have enough juice to move themselves. 

BusinessStartups

Charter’s Plan to Fix Space Insurance 

Charter estimates that approximately 97% of the ~10,500 active satellites on orbit are uninsured. Tens of billions of dollars worth of satellite technology is flying around without a financial safety net.