The Space Force Cuts Corners
Cut season isn’t ending with NASA: the Space Force’s budget request for FY2025 is ~$600M lower than its last ask for fiscal 2024.
Rachael Zisk
Phantom Raises a Bridge Round
Phantom Space has raised a bridge round of funding to scale up hiring ahead of its first rocket launch next year. Balerion Space Ventures led the round, which also included participation from the Reaser Family Office, KOLH Capital, and a handful of existing and new investors. The new tranche of funding brings the company’s total […]
Slingshot Opens First Overseas Office in the UK
The space situational awareness (SSA) firm Slingshot Aerospace is opening two offices in the UK in its first expansion outside America’s borders.
Just Keep Breathing
Jupiter’s moon Europa creates enough oxygen every day to keep a million people breathing—but that’s less than researchers used to think.
Transporter-10 Launches 53 Satellites
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s a Falcon 9, careening off to orbit laden with payloads from far and wide.
JWST Observations Show Root of Reionization
The findings indicate that dwarf galaxies were likely responsible for kicking off the reionization of the universe.
Unseenlabs Raises €85M for Maritime Tracking
Unseenlabs, a French space company building a constellation for maritime surveillance, has raised an €85M ($92.2M) funding round that will support its expansion outside of Europe.
SpaceFields Closes an $800,000 Seed Round
SpaceFields, a startup building novel rocket engines and propulsion systems, has closed $800,000 in seed funding, the Bengaluru, India-based company announced yesterday.
Lockheed Shows Off its New Speed
Lockheed Martin ($LMT) is trying to buck the sluggish reputation often attributed to defense primes.
Astronomers Identify Record-Breaking Quasar
The brightest object in the universe—or at least, the brightest we’ve seen yet—shines 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun, and it eats a Sun a day.
SOFIA Data Shows Water on Asteroids
The water covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface came from somewhere, and debate swirls among scientists about that mysterious source.
Congress Reveals Russia’s Possible Nuclear ASAT Plans
Congress was thrown into a frenzy yesterday amid reports that Russia is working on a space-based nuclear capability that could target satellites in LEO.