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Stories on the European space industry
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…
UNIVITY Raises €27M Series A
Blast Club and Expansion Venture Capital contributed to the round, which also included support from the Deep Tech fund managed by Bpifrance.
Artemis II Gives Airbus Hope For European Spaceflight
At the heart of Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft is the European Service Module (ESM), built by Airbus Defence and Space in Bremen, Germany, on behalf of ESA.
Czech Radiation Chips on Artemis II Bring ISS Experience
With the sun at solar maximum, HERA serves as an instant warning system if a solar flare emerges.
With Artemis Changes, Europe is Left Holding the Bag
ESA and European space primes were developing many of the key components of the planned lunar orbiting station.
Arkadia Space Secures €14.5M to Develop New Biprop Engine
Spanish propulsion startup Arkadia Space just secured a stamp of approval from the European Investment Council.
