Business

Lockheed, Northrop, and Iridium Q3 Earnings Roundup

This week, a pair of primes—Lockheed Martin ($LMT) and Northrop Grumman ($NOC)—and satcom operator Iridium ($IRDM) reported their revenues for the third quarter. We’ve got the roundup of all the space-related tidbits inside.

BusinessSatcom

Lynk and Omnispace Plan to Merge

Lynk Global, a satellite operator with a constellation of D2D and IoT-enabled satellites, plans to merge with telecom firm Omnispace to expand their business across both commercial and government lines.

BusinessMilitary

Vantor Wins New Space Force Contract for In-Space Monitoring

Vantor—the artist formerly known as Maxar Intelligence—is expanding its relationship with the DoD through another in-space awareness contract.

EOMilitary

Planet Wins $12.8M NGA Contract for Maritime Intelligence from Space

On Friday, the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which supports both DoD and the intelligence community with imagery collected in orbit, awarded Planet Labs a $12.8M contract through the Luno B program. 

EuropeVC/PE

HyImpulse Secures €45M for Small Launch

Europe is still waiting on reliable access to space. Investors are keen on shortening that wait.

Payload Pioneers 2025

Alexa Villa, Apex Space

When it comes down to it, the space industry is about building stuff. That’s Alexa Villa’s specialty. 

Payload Pioneers 2025

Ethan Sinclair, Turion Space

fter his time at SpaceX, Sinclair made the leap to Turion. Sinclair moved across the country to join the company when it was a small startup of seven people (though he’s now one of 140+). 

Payload Pioneers 2025

Alex Reynolds, ATTX

Alex Reynolds is the founder and CEO of ATTX, a two-year-old startup building the software stack for clients in the space industry. The idea: create software that can work for clients across the space ecosystem, and eliminate the need for companies to build all their own stuff.

Payload Pioneers 2025

Sairaksha Kesarla, Planet Labs

Space tech does a lot of good for people down here on Earth. For Sairaksha Kesarla, an engineering program manager at Planet Labs ($PL), that’s the whole point.

Payload Pioneers 2025

Benjamin Spencer, Apex Space

“He has single-handedly elevated what it means to produce excellent engineering work here at Apex, and has set the standard for every program to come,” Nicolas Gutierrez, head of RF and comms at Apex, said about Spencer. “We definitely could not have done it without him.”

CivilScience

The Planetary Society Calls to Save NASA Science

The Planetary Society brought together 20 space organizations on Capitol Hill in support of funding NASA science programs.

BusinessInternationalISAM

Exclusive: OrbitAID to Support Indian-Aussie Collab with Refueling Tech

A young Indian sustainability startup is getting its feet wet in orbit during an international joint mission. OrbitAID, a Bangalore, India-based startup building satellite servicing and sustainability tech, has signed a contract to supply ground fueling services and a refueling port to Aussie firm Space Machines Company in support of the upcoming MAITRI mission, a…