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How Can We Respond to the Skills Gap in Space?
According to the 2023 Space Sector Skills Survey by the Space Skills Alliance, 52 percent of space organizations in the U.K. have skills gaps in their current workforce. For 72 percent of those, the gaps are most prominent in software and data skills. These gaps are a result of struggling to hire new staff (48…
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Impulse Space Raises Another Massive Funding Round in $500M Series D
Impulse Space has raised another massive funding round, of $500 million in Series D funding announced on Tuesday. 137 Ventures and Banner VC led the round. The company says this money will support building the full spectrum space mobility infrastructure. This comes just one year after Impulse raised $300 million in a Series C. The…
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Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline
The chief executive of Blue Origin, whose large New Glenn rocket exploded spectacularly less than a week ago at the company’s launch site in Florida, vowed Monday night that the company would launch again before the end of 2026. Writing on the social media site X, Blue Origin’s Dave Limp said the company had been…
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Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up
Getting around space, as it turns out, is kind of a big deal. On Tuesday, Impulse Space, a company dedicated to improving space mobility, announced it has raised $500 million in Series D funding. Since it was founded five years ago by SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller, the company has now raised more than $1 billion.…
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PLD Space Invests €35 Million in Guiana Space Centre Launch Complex
In the context of the Choose France event, held in Versailles, PLD Space, an international space transportation company, has announced a €35 million investment in the development and deployment of its Launch Complex at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou (French Guiana) over the 2025-2026 period. This investment positions PLD Space as the first…
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SEOPS Announces Waymaker Rideshare Program with Inaugural Falcon 9 Mission
During the SmallSat Europe conference being held in Amsterdam, space access provider SEOPS announced its Waymaker program, the company’s dedicated rideshare missions to low Earth orbit (LEO). Waymaker is designed to provide customers with SEOPS-managed dedicated rideshare capacity to LEO through standardized capacity portions, defined interfaces, and a managed mission process. SEOPS has signed a…
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L3Harris Technologies Continues Expansion of Solid Rocket Motor Facilities in Huntsville
L3Harris Technologies has expanded its Advanced Manufacturing Facility-South (AMF-South) in Huntsville with a $25 million investment that includes an additional 130,000 square feet of manufacturing space. The expansion increases the company’s footprint in Huntsville to ~670,000 square feet across three local sites. The AMF-South location is able to scale rapidly by utilizing space that already has…
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LEAP Enhances Space Logistics with Integrated Mission Solutions
LEAP is developing a portfolio of transportation and logistics technologies designed to support the movement of cargo and payloads to, through and from space. The company’s technology portfolio spans reusable flight systems, propulsion technologies, tank manufacturing and future logistics architectures aimed at enabling responsive and scalable transportation operations. A key element of LEAP’s technology roadmap…
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Space Solar and Lonestar to Host Sovereign Data on Orbital Platforms
Space Solar, the UK company building space-based solar power and the large in-space assembled power structures the orbital economy will run on, and Lonestar, the US pioneer that has already stored data on the Moon, have announced their intent to cooperate on hosting Lonestar’s StarVault data storage modules aboard Space Solar spacecraft. The partnership pulls together…
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ICEYE Secures €28.3 Million R&D Grant from Business Finland
ICEYE, the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space, announced that Business Finland, Finland’s public innovation agency, has approved a €28.3 million continuation grant, the final tranche of a previously announced major R&D investment decision. As European nations accelerate investment in sovereign defence and national resilience from border and maritime security to disaster response the…