IM-1 Lunar Lander is Set to Launch Wednesday Morning
SpaceX is slated to launch the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander aboard Falcon 9 early Valentine’s Day morning as it attempts to become the first commercial spacecraft to soft-land on the lunar surface and the first US vehicle to accomplish the feat since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Exclusive: Heliux Comes Out of Stealth With $2M In Funding
Heliux, a startup building an AI-powered enterprise operating system, is emerging from stealth today with the announcement of its first $2M funding round.
LeoLabs Raises $29M for a Global Tracking Network
LeoLabs clinched $29M in funding to fulfill its dreams of truly global coverage and deep, AI-powered analytics to support its LEO-monitoring space radar network.
Palantir and Voyager Partner on AI for Starlab
Palantir, the AI data and analytics unicorn, is getting more deeply involved in the space domain.
NASA’s Signal to Industry & More Challenges Facing Space
What keeps NASA’s chief economist up at night? Figuring out how to send consistent demand signals to industry in a constrained budget environment.
NASA Launches PACE for Ocean and Atmospheric Observation
Space makes a pretty good perch from which to study the Earth’s evolution over time. It’s a good enough vantage point that over the past 20 years, NASA has invested nearly a billion dollars into the development of a satellite that can help explain interactions between the ocean and atmosphere for vital climate change research.
Clean Up In NSSL’s Lane 1
The US military’s scheme to diversify its stable of rocketmakers is running into a problem: None of them is likely to fly their rockets on time.
BlackSky Wins $50M Project To Give Indonesia Eyes in the Sky
BlackSky inked ~$50M-worth of contracts with the Indonesian Ministry of Defense to provide the agency access to the company’s commercial space-based intelligence, with plans to build a sovereign capability for the country down the road.
AI Startup Synthetaic Closes $15M Series B
Synthetaic closed a $15M Series B round on Tuesday that will help bring its AI-driven image search tech to market.
Viasat Is Still In Building Mode After Inmarsat Deal
Less than a year after acquiring European rival Inmarsat, ViaSat ($VSAT) management told investors Tuesday night that the two companies’ operations had been integrated successfully.
The State of Civil Space Policy 2024
If the past few years have been about growth and planning in the space community, 2024 is the year of regulation and execution, according to some leading space experts.
A-Rod Will Take Satellite-to-Phone Firm Lynk Public
Lynk, which operates satellites that connect directly to mobile phones to provide emergency connectivity, laid out its plans to go public later this year by merging with a blank check firm run by former baseball star Alex Rodriguez.
