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LaunchVC/PE

Blue Origin Seeks $10B at $130B Valuation, Reporting Shows

Blue Origin’s days as a Bezos-funded billion-dollar pet project are coming to an end.

ISS

Auxilium Demos Tech To Enable Sustainable Bioprinting in Orbit

Auxilium Biotechnologies has created multiple types of organ tissues aboard the ISS, marking a milestone when it comes to the scalability and future use cases for bioprinting in orbit. 

LaunchLunar

ispace Launches Lunar Integrator Service With Starship

The Japanese company announced Tuesday that it had secured 500 kg of payload capacity on Starship to launch no earlier than 2030.

LaunchStartupsVC/PE

Venus Aerospace Raises $91M Series B to Scale RDRE Production

The funding round is the latest in a string of news from RDRE engine companies, suggesting the more efficient rocket tech is having a moment in the industry. 

Polaris

FCC Poised To Advance Sat Licensing Reform

FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced last week that the commission is expected to vote on the Space Modernization Order on July 22.

Launch

Transporter-17 Sends the First Commercial Nuclear Sat to Orbit

SpaceX’s ($SPCX) Transporter-17 rideshare mission lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:12am, carrying 81 payloads to LEO.

CivilLEO

NASA Releases CLD Draft RFP

NASA is officially moving forward with its original plan to support stand-alone replacements to the ISS, after industry proved its take on human habitation in LEO. 

Startups

Exclusive: Ravee Optics Raises $6M Seed to Build Compact Laser Terminals

Ravee Optics’ solution is designed to bring laser comms to the masses, with terminals that are lighter, smaller, and easier to manufacture at scale.

VC/PE

The Biggest Fundraises of H1 2026

This is a case where a rising rocket lifts all payloads, around the world.

EuropeInternational

Inside the Deepening Ties Between Europe and the Middle East

While European sovereignty may be driven by a response to the deterioration of geopolitical ties to the US, it’s opened the door for Middle Eastern space companies.

Military

True Anomaly Approaches, Images Rocket Lab Craft

SSC ordered True Anomaly to deliver the imagery within 72 hours of receiving the order. True Anomaly did it in 61.

EuropeMilitarySatcom

Exclusive: Austria Taps R-Space for Its Second Military Sat

Aurora is one of three missions in a series of planned government-backed demos to validate new technologies in orbit