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Stories on the European space industry
Europe Celebrates its Sovereignty Progress at SmallSat
Europe made its most concrete claim yet for sovereignty in orbit this week.
Exclusive: Stellar Alpina Raises $4.5M to Build Rotating Detonation Engines
A European propulsion startup is trying to bring a new kind of thrust to the market.
ESA Chief Calls on Europe to Double Funds for Space
Europe has made huge strides increasing public funds to grow its space economy, but to some in the industry, enough is not enough.
ESA Approves Two Scout Science Missions
Europe is on a mission to prove that groundbreaking science can be done on the cheap.
U-Space Selects Skynopy to Support Multiple Missions
Skynopy’s ground-station-as-a-service model is quickly gaining traction.
Intuitive Machines Bets on Lunar Comms with Goonhilly Buy
Intuitive Machines is going all-in on lunar comms. Yesterday, Intuitive Machines announced a definitive agreement to acquire UK-based Goonhilly Earth Station, as well as Goonhilly’s US subsidiary COMSAT, to expand the lunar company’s offering in deep-space comms and PNT. “Customers have been clear that they want a single, integrated, and resilient solution for their communications…
European Space Startups Jockey for ‘Infrastructure’ Financing
Europe has a growth-stage-capital problem.
LiveEO Raises €28M+ to Fund its First Constellation
The German company will use the funds to scale its business, launch its own satellite constellation, and build the tech to meet the growing demand for EO data.
ESA Taps Edge Aerospace for Space Cloud Contract
Under the agreement, announced today, the Luxembourg-based company will develop an architecture and use-case road-map for orbital data centers.
European Space Firms Raised €1.4B of Private Capital in 2025
Private European capital markets are increasingly comfortable backing space-industry upstarts.
BioOrbit Raises £9.8M Seed To Manufacture Cancer Drugs in Orbit
BioOrbit is attempting to leverage microgravity to reformulate drugs so that they can be self administered by patients instead of requiring medical staff to administer them.
DPhi’s Second Demo Brings Compute Space to Orbit
Swiss startup DPhi Space hosted Liquid AI’s large language model to analyze an EO image—without first transmitting the image to the ground. That was the first public result of DPhi’s second mission, Clustergate-2, which rode to orbit on a Momentus Vigoride 7 sat in March. The transmission, which was announced today, signifies a new age…
