Anduril Names Its SBI Team For Golden Dome
Anduril is one of 12 primes working on the SBI aspect of the Golden Dome missile defense architecture.
Bridenstine Takes Over as Quantum Space CEO
Bridenstine, who was NASA chief between 2018 and 2021, told Payload that the new position allows him to get back into national security and defense—“That’s where my background is, and where my heart is,” he said.
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.
Lt. Gen. Schiess Nominated to Lead Space Force
If confirmed, Schiess will be just the third person to serve as the chief of space operations since the Space Force was established in 2019.
Payload Field Guide: Lunar Rovers
As NASA and its partners push harder toward a sustained human presence on the Moon, mobility is mission-critical. Moon buggies with lawn chairs might’ve been good enough for the Apollo-era, but long-term surface operations depend on lunar rovers that can pull their weight (quite literally). For decades, lunar rovers were the domain of national space…
Space Nuclear Execs Cheer the FY27 Budget Proposal
More than just money, NASA is throwing its full weight behind what Administrator Isaacman sees as the agency’s “logical evolution.”
House Subcommittee Approves $24.4B NASA Budget
Lawmakers have spent the past week telling NASA that they don’t support the administration’s FY27 budget request for the agency. Now, House appropriators have taken the first legislative step to formally reject the spending plan.
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.
CATALYST Unveils its Sat Product for City Skylines
“Now we can show a construction firm what was already moving before they broke ground, an insurer the risk they were underwriting blind, and a city authority the consequences of densification they had approved but were not monitoring,” PCI Geomatics CEO June McAlarey said in a statement.
York Space Systems to Acquire ALL.SPACE for $355M
York hopes the combined tech will increase its exposure to “high-growth adjacent markets,” namely comms and multi-domain military use cases.
Orbital Data Center Competitive Landscape
Orbital data center competition includes big players like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sophia Space, Starcloud, Aetherflux, and Axiom. Plus, satellite manufacturing suppliers such as Apex and K2 Space.
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