Funding & Venture Capital
Egypt Achieves “Digital Sovereignty” with Successful SPNEX Orbital Insertion
Leveraging Chinese delivery systems while maintaining absolute control over the spacecraft’s proprietary software and sensor architecture ...
Ursa Major raises $100 million to scale hypersonics, solid rocket motors and space mobility
Ursa Major has closed $100 million in its Series E funding round and received an additional $50 million in debt funding commitments—investors include both new and long-term supporters of Ursa Major’s mission, including Eclipse, who led the round and were ...
Reflex Aerospace secures record €50 million Series A
Reflex Aerospace has successfully closed a €50 million Series A funding round—this funding round is the largest Series A in the European New Space sector to date. The funding, led by Human Element together with Alpine Space Ventures, Bayern Kapital, ...
MDA Space makes a $10 million investment in Maritime Launch
Expected to bolster Canada’s sovereign space capabilities and create a competitive option for the global launch services market. MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has announced a $10 million equity investment into Maritime Launch Services Inc. This investment marks a key ...
Hubble Network raises $70 million Series B to scale global Bluetooth®-to-Satellite connectivity + presenting at Silicon Valley Space Week
Hubble Network recently announced a major step forward as the firm raised $70 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $100 million since its founding in 2021. This raise fuels their growth and also validates the ...
HyImpulse obtains €45 million in Series A funding for “Made in Europe” rocket technology
HyImpulse Technologies GmbH has raised €15 million in equity capital as part of its Series A funding round and secured an additional €30 million in financing. HyImpulse will use the new capital to drive forward the development and commercialization of ...
UK Space Agency funds space-based anti-aging solution project in space by LinkGevity
The UK Space Agency has awarded grant funding (amount unspecified) to startup LinkGevity to determine whether the firm's anti-ageing solution could work away from Earth. The firm has been backed to prepare its anti-necrotic therapeutic for deployment in space via ...
Thales Alenia Space premieres Space Smart Factory with Italy’s president and other notables in attendance
The Sicral 3 satellite will ensure continuity of Italy’s Ministry of Defense satcom services Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has today inaugurated its Space Smart Factory in Rome with a ceremony attended by ...
Muon Space awarded $44.6 million USSF SBIR Phase III i OTA to demo dual-use environmental monitoring constellation
Muon Space has been awarded a $44.6 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Firm Fixed Price Phase III Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement from the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command System Delta 810 (SYD 810). The OTA Agreement ...
Stoke Space raises $510 million to scale mfg of the firm’s fully reusable Nova launch vehicle
Artistic rendition of Stoke Space's NOVA reusable launch vehicle, courtesy of the company As of September 23rd, Stoke Space has raised $510 million in Series D funding, led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT) in conjunction with a ...
Space Phoenix Systems wins Pepperdine’s Most Fundable Company in America award
Space Phoenix Systems (SPS) was declared a winner and formally recognized as one of the Most Fundable Companies in America™ by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School—the award was announced during an on-campus ceremony celebrating this year’s winners. This year, Pepperdine’s ...
Alaska Capital invests $30 million in Fenix Space Inc. to advance next generation launch capabilities
Alaska Capital, LLC has signed a letter of intent to invest $30 million in a Series A financing of Fenix Space Inc. for advanced launch capabilities. As part of the collaboration, Alaska Capital also intends to assist Fenix Space with ...
ReOrbit secured €45 million to manufacture sovereign satellites + connected systems for national security
ReOrbit recently closed their €45 million Series A funding round, the largest all-equity Series A round in Finland and one of the most significant deals overall in the European space and defence sector. The round was led by Springvest, with ...
Forrester’s Digest: EchoStar sells spectrum to SpaceX; quits LEO plan
It seems that Charlie Ergen and EchoStar have decided to trim — if not exit — the satellite direct-to-consumer market. It is selling its AWS-4 and H-Block licenses (c. 50MHz of spectrum) to SpaceX for $17 billion (€14.5bn), with up ...
Aerospacelab secures 94 million euros ($110 million)
Aerospacelab has closed an extended Series B funding round totaling 94 million euros ($110 million) throughout a dual-tranche funding of 56 million euros ($66 million) alongside a 38 million euros ($44 million) commitment from a European financial institution. This Series ...
Forrester’s Digest: Belgium’s Aerospacelab raises $110milion
Charleroi, Belgium-based, Aerospacelab has raised $110 million (€94.5m) of fresh cash to expand its manufacturing capacity and improve its bid for a role in IRIS², Europe’s planned highly-secure multi-orbit broadband satellite constellation. The cash-raising exercise is part of a Series ...
Samara Aerospace awarded NASA SBIR Phase I to advance breakthrough spacecraft attitude control tech
Samara Aerospace has been awarded a Phase I contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to advance its Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC)—a cutting- edge technology designed to revolutionize spacecraft attitude control and jitter mitigation using intelligent, ...
Forrester’s Digest: Luxembourg invests $350 million in GovSat-2
Artistic rendition of GovSat-2 on-orbit is courtesy of Thales Alenia Space The Luxembourg government is to invest $350 million (€298.6 million) in its joint-venture GovSat-2 project with SES. The government will also put in place $233 million for a “strategic ...
Auriga Space raises $6 million to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track
While U.S.-based companies are launching more payloads into orbit than ever before, they’re still limited by the inefficiency of conventional rockets—with rockets, most of the weight is in the propellant, not the payload, and a huge portion of the propellant ...
Solestial awarded $1.2M by SpaceWERX to develop smallsat multiorbital solar array wing
Solestial, Inc. (“Solestial”), the solar energy company for space, today announced that it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1.2 million dollars to develop a novel, fast to manufacture, multiorbital solar array ...
