StartupsTechnologyVC/PE

Sophia Space Raises $7M, Taps Apex for 2027 Demo Flight

The orbital-compute startup today announced new fundraising—as well as a demo flight with Apex. Both initiatives are aiming to position the company to begin deploying its edge compute hardware in-orbit.

SatcomStartupsTechnology

Exclusive: Northwood Unveils New Antenna, Expanded Network Capacity

The new hardware comes amid Northwood’s rapid global expansion of its physical ground station footprint, and will allow the company to support more data downlinks over a wider range of frequencies.

ScienceTechnology

Boeing Completes Quantum Lab Test Ahead of 2027 Flight

Boeing ($BA) announced today that it successfully demonstrated high-fidelity quantum entanglement swapping during ground tests of its quantum networking satellite—called Q4S.

MilitaryStartupsTechnology

True Anomaly Declares Mission X-3 Success

True Anomaly announced today that its autonomous orbital vehicle, Jackal, has completed all of its Mission X-3 test objectives, clearing the final hurdles to being fully commissioned. 

EOStartupsTechnology

Exclusive: Tilebox Launches AI-Focused Update

Tilebox announced an update today aiming to make AI agents more effective geospatial-data analysts.

StartupsTechnology

Symphony Space Unveils Adagio-XL ODC Sat

With Adagio-XL, Symphony Space is getting into the orbital data center game.

StartupsTechnologyVC/PE

Orbital Raises $5M Pre-Seed to Build ODC Constellation

Orbital’s ODC concept instead relies on a network of relatively smaller satellites, which can together handle large AI inference workloads, and remain in constant contact with the ground.

StartupsTechnologyVC/PE

Juno Propulsion Raises $1.4M Pre-Seed for RDE Flight

The $1.4M pre-seed investment round will fund the completion of its first flight-ready rotating detonation engine (RDE)—called Project Iris—ahead of its inaugural demo mission in 2027.

Deep SpaceStartupsTechnology

AstroForge Completes its DeepSpace-2 Spacecraft

DeepSpace-2 will aim to demonstrate the company’s ability to rendezvous with an asteroid and set the stage for future asteroid mining missions before the end of the decade.

BusinessTechnology

Muon Space Unveils New, Larger Satellite Bus

Condor-Ultra is three times larger than its Condor-XL satellite bus, and geared toward the nascent orbital-data-center market.

MilitaryTechnology

Northrop Grumman Taps Apex for Golden Dome SBI Collab

Northrop Grumman is on track to deliver on-orbit missile defense capabilities with Apex in 2027.

EOInternationalTechnology

Bellatrix Aerospace Tapped to Build Korean VLEO Demo Sat

Bellatrix Aerospace is teaming up with Korean optical payload manufacturer TelePIX on a new VLEO demo satellite, launching NET 2028.   

EuropeStartupsTechnology

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.