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NordSpace Funds NVD Amid Canada’s Export Push
NordSpace Ventures—the strategic investment arm of Canadian launch startup NordSpace—announced an investment in North Vector Dynamics (NVD) this week, a Canadian defense tech company building full-spectrum sovereign missile capability. The investment landed the same week Ottawa launched its Strategic Exports Office (SEO) in an effort to boost the country’s international competitiveness in strategic sectors—including aerospace…
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Scottish Government Selects Planet Labs for AI-Based Agricultural Monitoring
Planet Labs Germany, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, recently announced that it was selected for a 7-figure award from the Scottish Government’s Agricultural and Rural Economy Directorate. Under this one-year agreement, Planet will deliver PlanetScope data and advanced analytics to support Scotland’s Agricultural Reform Route Map. Secured through…
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Report: Our Launch Cadence Forecast For Next-Gen Rockets
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NASA Backs Concept to Release 10,000 Tiny Probes Directly Into Saturn’s Rings
Saturn’s rings remain poorly understood despite decades of observation from a distance. NASA’s last Saturn mission, Cassini, was unable to directly enter the rings and gathered data only from orbit before its planned atmospheric plunge in 2017. The new concept aims to close that gap by placing sensors inside the rings themselves. The study proposes…
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Starlab Advances the Future of Commercial Spaceflight with the Commercial Space Station
Starlab is developing a next-generation commercial space station designed to provide a permanent destination for scientific research, technology development and commercial activities in low Earth orbit (LEO). Headquartered in Texas, United States, the company is building a commercially operated orbital platform that aims to ensure a continuous human presence in LEO following the retirement of…
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AccelerComm Powers Eclipse Space’s 5G Physical Layer for Sovereign Satellite Constellations
AccelerComm, a leading provider of high-performance physical layer solutions for 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTN), announced the successful completion of two engineering engagements with Eclipse Space, a sovereign satellite infrastructure company founded by veterans of the Starlink program. Across the two successive engagements, AccelerComm supported Eclipse in defining the physical-layer architecture for its next-generation spacecraft, spanning both…
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K2 Space Raises $500M Series D at $6.8B Valuation
K2 Space announced a $500M Series D yesterday at a $6.8B post-money valuation. The round is hot off the heels of a $250M Series C in December, and brings K2’s total financing north of $1B since its founding in 2022. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, which included additional participation from CapitalG, Lightspeed Venture…
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Puli Space Advances Lunar Exploration with Next-Generation Space Solutions
Puli Space Technologies is a space technology company based in Budapest, Hungary, founded in 2010 with the goal of becoming part of the private lunar industry. The company develops a low-cost, lightweight planetary rover platform with unique mobility capabilities, along with payloads and a neutron spectrometer designed to explore lunar water resources and support In-Situ Resource…
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Momentus Reports Clean Vigoride 7 Maneuvers and Ongoing Payload Mission Success
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company specializing in satellite technology, space transportation, and in-orbit services, announced its Vigoride 7 Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) has successfully completed another key milestone during its mission, which is scheduled to last for several months. The Vigoride 7 mission began on March 30, 2026 when the OSV was launched to…
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Payload Field Guide: European Launchers
Europe is firing on all fronts to stand up new launch capabilities, but the continent isn’t moving as fast as it might hope. Across the region, a slew of relatively young launch startups are making headway developing their new launch vehicles, with many projecting debut launches in the coming year. Even outside of Europe, rocket…