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Muon Space’s Sat-Backed Growth Strategy for 2026

Muon has 20 satellites manifested to launch in the next 20 months, and expects more contracts to close in the coming year, according to CEO Jonny Dyer.

Uncategorized

Vantor Wins $5.3M Luno B Contract From NGA

The contract, awarded under NGA’s Luno B program, will see Vantor provide the intelligence community with data about shifts to things like roads, vegetation, and buildings, as well as broader impacts caused by manmade or natural disasters.

Viasat’s HaloNet: Building the Bridge to a More Connected Orbit

In today’s rapidly proliferating orbital environment, spacecraft are only as capable as their ability to stay connected. Traditional communications architectures—built around scheduled ground passes and line-of-sight links—can’t keep pace with the speed and complexity of modern missions.Viasat’s HaloNet hybrid terminal aims to change that by unifying multiple communications pathways into one adaptive system, designed to keep satellites in constant contact—from launch, through orbit.

Exclusive: Viridian Space Signs CRADA Agreement with US Air Force

LEO is getting crowded, but there’s plenty of real estate available closer to home if you can make it work. California-based Viridian Space is aiming to do just that.

Business

York Drops Protest of Apex’s SBIR Award

York filed a motion asking to dismiss its protest on Jan. 28—one day before going public on the NYSE.

Civil • Polaris • Policy

Congress is Considering a NASA Authorization Bill—Again

Recently, it’s become an annual exercise for lawmakers, and a stated priority for committee leaders past and present. However, past bills have stalled and failed to codify the space agency’s missions.

Science • Startups

HawkEye 360 Taps Hale for Space Weather Forecasts

Predicting the future is no simple task, but for space weather forecasting startup Hale SWx, it’s part of the business model.

VC/PE

CesiumAstro Raises $270M Series C

Yesterday, spacecom company CesiumAstro announced that it closed a $270M round of funding—which will help the company to cement further contracts in the defense sector, and build out its natsec business.

Deep Space • Technology

Mars Rover Drives with the Help of Anthropic AI

AI is everywhere these days—even on Mars.

Engineers at JPL announced Friday that they had successfully used Anthropic’s AI model, called Claude, to map a 450-meter Martian path for NASA’s Perseverance rover.