Reuters reports a merger would give Musk voting control via SpaceX's existing supervoting shares without clearing any Tesla pay-plan milestone, and a far sma...
BlackSky's Q3 2026 revenue rose 118% year over year to a record $42.8 million, and the company swung to net income.
Hyderabad's Cosmoserve Space raised $6 million and opened Base 1, which it calls India's first private debris-removal facility.
The Janus Henderson-led round funds CesiumAstro's 737-satellite Synchronicity network after a successful first demo satellite.
SES shares rose nearly 12% after Q3 revenue of €870 million topped estimates and total backlog hit a record €10 billion.
Redwire's Q3 revenue rose 5.4% to $109 million as backlog grew nearly 75% year over year.
The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital will match LeoLabs' own $150 million, funding $300 million in radar expansion.
Vienna-based Tumbleweed closed a €6.9 million seed round to build Oasis Beta, its own atmospheric reentry vehicle.
EQT-backed SatPort buys Speedcast's teleport network of 12 sites in 11 countries, deal terms undisclosed.
SpaceX is negotiating to buy or lease Boost Mobile's network from EchoStar for Starlink Mobile, per the Washington Post.
Northwood Space closed a $375M Series C less than nine months after its $100M Series B, valuing the ground-network startup at $2 billion.
Per Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton: AST SpaceMobile "needs to pivot, and pivot FAST" against SpaceX's wireless push.
Musk says SpaceX's Colossus 2 campus is adding two more AI compute clusters, Gun Range and Spam, on the way to about 1.2 million Nvidia Blackwell chips by ye...
The SEC declared the deal's registration statement effective and Inflection Point set a Nov. 20 shareholder vote, with the combined company now expected to l...
IN-SPACe gave four Indian startups Rs 67.15 crore combined for propulsion, refuelling, timing and navigation-chip technology.
Telesat's Q3 results confirm the GEO refinancing is still unresolved with five weeks to a Dec. 6 deadline, and a lender group has offered a C$3.2 billion res...
Per BofA: China is the top regulatory risk to a SpaceX-Tesla merger, since Tesla's Shanghai plant would sit under a defense contractor.
Manastu Space, an Indian green-propulsion and debris-avoidance startup, raised Rs 22 crore ($2.3 million) in a Series A extension.
Per telecom analyst William Webb: SpaceX may need another $120-130 billion to compete head-on with T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon.
Per Sequoia's Shaun Maguire: SpaceX revenue could reach $274B in 2027, $731B in 2028, more than double Wall Street's estimate.
Bloomberg reports Anthropic made up about 34.5% of SpaceX's third-quarter revenue, citing a person familiar with the matter, overtaking the US government as...
Eutelsat's backlog jumped to 12.1 billion euros as IRIS2 entered construction, adding 8.9 billion euros in backlog.
Italian smallsat maker Argotec took its first-ever outside capital, 50 million euros, to scale production.
Per ARK Invest: a Tesla-SpaceX merger within five years could hit $2.7 trillion in 2031 operating profit.
EIB and Deutsche Bank will channel €560M to European space firms, announced at ESA's Munich investor forum.
Fitch says the $40 billion GPU lease, structured as a master finance lease, won't change SpaceX's BBB+ credit rating; the agency also disclosed SpaceX held $...
Anthropic's own public S-1 filing shows the real SpaceX compute commitment is $120.5 billion, $36 billion above the figure reported from the confidential draft.
Rendezvous Robotics raised a $20M seed round to develop hexagonal tiles that self-assemble into satellites in orbit.
Tesla director Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs Tesla's compensation and governance committees, also sits on SpaceX's board, a dual role critics say undercuts the...
The FCC approves the transfer of Globalstar's satellite licenses to Amazon, clearing a key regulatory condition toward the deal's expected 2027 close.
Blackbird leads MP Space's AUD $23M (about $16.1M) seed round; Seraphim Space makes its first Australian investment.
The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital commits a $150 million conditional loan for Stoke Space's second Cape Canaveral launchpad.
Per Scott Galloway: Tesla is "the patient" and SpaceX "the organ donor" in Musk's proposed merger.
Per Barclays: a SpaceX-Tesla merger is now "a key part of" Tesla's bull case, with a new $450 price target.
SpaceX's own Q3 earnings call, already the item's lead source, also disclosed Starlink Mobile's 22 million monthly users and Musk's accelerated $500 billion-...
Reuters reports Musk's public disclosure of the merger talks has unsettled some people involved, who worry it could invite shareholder scrutiny and delay the...
Musk says on X that SpaceX has closed the $40 billion debt financing, callable debt for GPU purchases arriving in Q1 and Q2, and that Starlink and launch rev...
SpaceX's CFO disclosed Q4 capex guidance of $35-40 billion, about double Q3's spend, and defended the payback timeline on new AI compute during the same earn...
SpectraGaze, founded by an ex-ISRO scientist, raised a Rs 3.7 crore seed round led by GVFL to build Indian infrared detectors.
Per PhillipCapital's Glenn Thum: SpaceX's AI and Starshield growth justify a sell-to-buy jump and a $75-to-$250 target.
SpaceX's 10-Q shows $561 million of its Q3 profit came from marking up its stake in Musk's Boring Company after Boring's own funding round.
Per Forbes: Xona closed a $250 million Series D led by Future Ventures, valuing the GPS-alternative satellite startup at $2.45 billion.
Satellite bus maker Apex is discussing a new round nearly double its $2.3 billion valuation from June, per Bloomberg.
Musk says on the earnings call that a merger "would be a good idea," citing AI-compute, chip and connectivity synergies, though shareholders would still have...
SpaceX's AI computing unit outearned Starlink for the first time as Q3 revenue hit $14.6 billion.
Musk says independent-director committees are evaluating combining the companies, calling a deal 'far from certain.'
Jensen Huang disclosed the stake, size undisclosed, as part of a wider Nvidia push into German AI startups.
Atombeam raised $18.3 million for Neurpac, data-compression software it says quadruples effective bandwidth on satellite and defense links.
WarpWare raised a $1.2 million angel-led pre-seed to build an AI-enabled flight software and GN&C platform for space missions.
Per RBC's Tom Narayan: an all-stock SpaceX takeover of Tesla at $480 a share would value the combined company at $3.74 trillion.
Seraphim Space Investment Trust's FY26 results show NAV up 150.6% to 704.4 million pounds, led by ICEYE gains.
Per Evercore's Kutgun Maral: AI compute growth and a looming Starship reuse milestone justify 87% upside.
Per European Spaceflight: 71 French MPs added a symbolic €1 VORTEX line to France's 2027 budget to press the government for clarity.
Bengaluru's OXG Space raised Rs 17 crore led by Aum Ventures to build in-orbit edge computing for Earth-observation data.
Seraphim says space startups raised a record $20.8 billion across 216 deals in Q3, led by launch and infrastructure bets.
Per Barclays: Tesla and SpaceX could merge before Tesla's Dec. 6 meeting, in an all-stock deal led by SpaceX.
Varda confirms its W-8/W-9 capsules reached orbit on Transporter-18 and lays out a seven-mission 2027 cadence plan.
Czech defense group CSG bought a 9.5% equity stake in MDA Space for about $434 million, its first move into the space sector.
Kapta Space closed a $24M Series A to build low-cost radar payloads that track moving targets from orbit.
Bezos told Fox News an eventual Blue Origin IPO "probably makes sense," the first time he has personally addressed the company's public-market plans.
Fortastra closed a $30M Series A led by First In to scale its Watchdog on-orbit security spacecraft, per PR Newswire.
The Estonian startup will use the seed round to scale production of its Ermes space laser terminal.
Reuters independently picked up the FT report and added that the financing is expected to close in 2027.
Open Cosmos set a concrete ConnectedCosmos target: 192 satellites, more than 96 by end of 2028, full coverage by 2030, under ex-Rivada Liechtenstein Ka-band...
Musk says SpaceX has closed the $40 billion debt financing it was seeking in October to fund Nvidia GPU purchases.
SEALSQ led a $10 million related-party PIPE investment in WISeSat.Space to fund satellite expansion and post-quantum security.
NorthStar's SPAC merger with Viking Acquisition Corp. closed and the combined company began trading on the NYSE.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp confirmed on the record that the funding round is real, oversubscribed, and still open, declining to confirm final figures as the W...
Satlyt raised an $8 million seed round to grow its software-only network for running AI inference on partner satellites.
London startup Foundational raised £8.2 million ($10.8M) pre-seed to automate satellite laser ranging at scale.
In-orbit insurer Charter Space raised a $5 million seed round to expand its AI-underwritten space insurance brokerage.
WISeSat.Space completed its SPAC merger with Columbus Acquisition Corp. and began trading on Nasdaq as SAIQ.
Meridian says SpinLaunch is not for sale, and named its Kongsberg NanoAvionics-built demo satellite and France and Miami ground-test sites ahead of Thursday'...
Y Combinator graduate Hop Aero closed an $11 million round to develop its container-launched Rook cargo rocket.
Lithuanian startup Blackswan Space closed a €2.5 million seed round to finance its first in-orbit RPO Kit demo.
Varda closed a $251 million Series D valuing the in-space pharmaceutical manufacturer at $1.6 billion.
NorthStar's previously announced SPAC deal with Viking Acquisition closed today, taking the space-tracking company public.
The Export-Import Bank's direct loan will fund Astranis's expansion of domestic GEO-satellite manufacturing capacity.
Via Satellite corrected its own report: NSSLGlobal acquired MetOcean Security UK, a division of MetOcean Telematics, not MetOcean Telematics itself, which re...
Anthropic's public S-1 shows it will pay SpaceX up to $120.5 billion for AI compute, $36 billion more than earlier reported.
SpinLaunch's satcom unit Meridian Space becomes an independent company, weeks before its first in-space demo.
Satellite maker Astro Digital is going public via a SPAC merger with Proem Acquisition Corp I at a $587 million enterprise value.
Bengaluru startup Sanyark Space raised a $2 million pre-seed round to build a satellite navigation-and-IoT constellation.
Per Rocket Lab CFO Adam Spice: the company plans more acquisitions to broaden capabilities beyond the pending Iridium deal.
Iridium stockholders voted about 99.6% in favor to adopt the merger agreement with Rocket Lab, per a joint SEC filing.
India's Technology Development Board is backing GalaxEye's OptoSAR satellite with 63.84 crore rupees in convertible debentures.
Correction: NSSLGlobal bought MetOcean Security UK, a MetOcean Telematics division; MetOcean Telematics itself stays independent.
The FCC accepted the companies' license-transfer applications for filing on September 16, opening a public-comment period running through November 9, per Sto...
Hubble Network raised $200 million and opened its satellite-Bluetooth network to all BLE devices.
Australia's HEO closed a $25 million Series B to extend its satellite-based imaging of other spacecraft into geostationary orbit.
ESA's Investor Forum unveiled a Space Debt Catalogue and pointed to an EIB lending facility already financing Italy's space supply chain.
Impulse Space adds $308 million to its Series D, citing surging demand for in-space mobility services.
The Bulgarian satellite manufacturer's second major raise in under a year funds new US and European manufacturing capacity.
Space Epoch closed a Series B++ round, pushing capital raised over six months past 2.3 billion yuan ($342 million), per Caixin Global.
Antonio Gracias's Valor Equity Partners handed limited partners $8.5 billion of SpaceX shares in kind rather than selling them.
Per Via Satellite, Open Cosmos says it can build one satellite a day across its four factories, holds Ka-band spectrum access, has accumulated more than $370...
Rocket Lab finished raising $1.944 billion via stock sales, securing the cash it needs for the Iridium acquisition.
Sophia Space and SLI outlined a non-binding $300 million framework to finance and lease a 10-satellite orbital-compute constellation.
Open Cosmos raised €300 million, its largest round to date, to scale satellite manufacturing and space data services.
ESA's 2026 Space Environment Report finds its debris Health Index worsened tenfold in a year as megaconstellations keep expanding.
Halifax's Galaxia raised CAD $4.5 million (about $3.25 million) to build out on-orbit compute and sovereign space capabilities.
Per Yahoo Finance: SpaceX's new, unnamed AI-computing customer adds about $13 billion in annualized revenue starting in December.
The OECD's Space Economy at a Glance 2026 report says the sector has grown to rival the semiconductor industry.
The $300M-target 'in talks' round (July 26) closed at $450M, 50% above target, with a named investor syndicate and a CEO quote; upgrading the lead from infor...
Stoke Space closed an initial $1B Series E tranche, taking total capital raised to $2.3B ahead of Nova Pathfinder's debut.
Abu Dhabi conglomerate IHC is buying a majority stake in Marlan Holding, parent of satellite-infrastructure firm Marlan Space.
The round reported as in-progress on 2026-07-07 (NewsBytes, informal, SNR 2) has now closed with named terms; upgrading the lead to a directly-fetched mainst...
Kineis says it expects to reach break-even in 2026 on projected revenue of 18 million euros, a year after launching commercial service.
Planet's fiscal Q2 revenue hit $116.1 million, up 58% year over year, with its first quarter of adjusted EBITDA profit.
The German launch company adds 50 million euros to its Series A, taking total funding past 125 million euros.
Project-S emerged from stealth with a multi-million-euro seed round to build a radar-based system for tracking orbital debris.
Per Oppenheimer analyst Timothy Horan: SpaceX's vertically integrated AI platform justifies a $280 target, up from $250.
Mitsubishi Electric leads a fresh €108M tranche, bringing PLD Space's Series C round to €288M total.
Bengaluru startup Kepler Aerospace lands its first outside funding to build six autonomous swarming surveillance satellites.
Quantum-imaging startup Diffraqtion added over $5 million to its pre-seed round, led by Lockheed Martin Ventures and Presidio Ventures.
The Indian in-space servicing startup raised a pre-Series A round to fund four planned in-orbit demonstration missions.
Astrum Space is merging with SPAC Black Spade Acquisition III at a roughly $1 billion valuation.
Hughes Satellite Systems bondholders allege EchoStar stripped over $1.5 billion from the subsidiary before its Chapter 11 filing.
CesiumAstro's third defense acquisition of 2026 adds 1Aardvark's mission software for contested, disconnected environments.
French startup ArcSpace closed a 2 million euro seed round to fund a 2027 in-orbit welding demonstration.
SpaceX disclosed in a June 16 SEC 8-K that it agreed to acquire Anysphere, the developer of the AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock merger implying a $60....
Starcloud added $250 million to its Series A, more than doubling its valuation to $2.3 billion five months after its March round.
Muon Space closed a $250 million Series C to scale satellite production toward 500 spacecraft a year by 2027.
Qianfan operator SpaceSail closed a 7 billion yuan ($1B) Series B, a record for China's satellite-internet sector.
Japanese propulsion startup Letara closed a ¥2.6 billion ($16 million) pre-Series A round for its hybrid rocket engine technology.
Novaspace projects more than 6,500 Earth observation satellites will launch by 2035, generating $155.9 billion in manufacturing revenue.
Via Satellite reported Kubasik was previously expected to lead Lockheed Martin, where he was vice chairman, president and chief operating officer, before an...
Seraphim Space Investment Trust put a further $30 million into satellite-Bluetooth network operator Hubble Network.
L3Harris ousted CEO Christopher Kubasik over a code-of-conduct breach, naming space-sector chief Sam Mehta as successor.
A US appeals court kept Devas' $562.5 million award against ISRO's Antrix alive; with interest it now tops $2 billion.
Lynk and Omnispace closed their merger as Elveo Mobile, and investor SES announced an expanded D2D investment and collaboration.
Telesat's first-half 2026 results show falling GEO revenue and a Lightspeed cost jump to $5.2 billion, per the company.
China's iSpace closed a $148 million first tranche of a Series E round for its reusable Hyperbola-3 rocket, with fundraising ongoing.
CesiumAstro is buying RF chipmaker Jariet Technologies to build its own satellite semiconductors in-house.
Marlink agreed to buy Global RadioData Communications, a UK satellite and RF comms specialist serving the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO.
AST SpaceMobile's Q2 net loss widened to $230.9 million, driven partly by a $125.9 million write-off tied to the lost BlueBird 7 satellite.
Eutelsat's full-year results show LEO connectivity revenue up 69.5% to EUR297 million, now a quarter of total revenue.
The reusable-spaceplane startup will merge with Pono Capital Four, targeting a Q1 2027 close.
Space-based intelligence revenue rose 36% as BlackSky's Gen-3 constellation adoption accelerated.
The joint venture's Grimes County, Texas complex will make AI chips for Tesla robots and SpaceX's planned space-based data centers.
On August 5, ICEYE said EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund, a fund established by the European Commission with European investors, co-led the round alongside General...
Portugal's Neuraspace secured an $18 million Series B and EU funding round for AI-driven space traffic management.
Redwire's Q2 2026 revenue rose 89.6% to a record $117.1 million as gross margin and backlog also hit highs.
Satellogic's Q2 2026 revenue rose 259% to $15.9 million, delivering its first positive operating income and adjusted EBITDA.
The Chinese launch startup closed a pre-C funding round and began IPO coaching while pushing Gravity-2 toward a Q4 debut.
AE Industrial closed its $845 million majority buy of L3Harris's space propulsion unit, relaunched as Rocketdyne.
A new startup wants laser-linked MEO satellites to compete with subsea cables on long-haul data routes.
Germany's Space Agency at DLR funded LiveEO to study a foundation AI model spanning optical and radar Earth-observation imagery.
Viasat's Q1 FY2027 revenue held flat at $1.2 billion as both remaining ViaSat-3 satellites near service entry.
MaiaSpace posted a 37.5 million euro loss for 2025 that pushed shareholders' equity negative; ArianeGroup voted not to dissolve it.
ETL Systems buys Croatian software specialist Amphinicy to broaden its satellite ground-segment portfolio.
EchoStar's satellite broadband unit files Chapter 11 after missing an August 1 debt deadline, without a pre-negotiated plan.
Hughes Network Systems, EchoStar's satellite broadband subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 2 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, per Advanced Television. Hughes had $102 million in cash on hand against $1.5 billion in borrowings that matured August 1, and filed without a pre-negotiated restructuring plan. EchoStar's own SEC 8-K, filed the same day, discloses an Item 1.03 bankruptcy event.
K2 also says it has now surpassed $1 billion in signed commercial and government contracts, per Via Satellite.
K2 Space's new funding, led by Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ, more than doubles its valuation as it scales satellite production.
Outlier Space raised $7.35 million pre-seed to build a reusable microgravity return capsule, per Payload.
EchoStar closed its $20.25 billion spectrum sale to AT&T, funding debt payoff across its satellite and wireless units.
The Exploration Company closed a $450 million Series C, 50% above its $300 million July target, to fund Nyx and its Storm engine.
Lockheed cut its Space profit outlook and backed a $500 million ULA loan as Vulcan's grounding drags on.
Free corroboration found this sweep: Tech.eu independently covered the same ORiS pre-seed round with matching figures, a distinct outlet from the SpaceNews l...
Mark Matossian and two co-founders launched Whipsmart Ventures, a fund for Series A-stage space and deep-tech startups.
The Beijing startup raised nearly 100 million yuan to build its Guanlan space situational-awareness constellation.
Per SpaceNews: the Turin startup raised 5 million euros to develop laser-based wireless power beaming for satellites.
German fluidics maker deltaVision raised 10.2 million euros to scale valve production for in-orbit refueling.
Northrop added a $91 million charge on its GEM 63XL solid rocket motor program, bringing 2026 charges to $162 million.
The Space Foundation says the global space economy hit $686 billion in 2025, up 12% year over year.
Contrivian folded networking-software maker Big Network into its Starlink-plus-terrestrial connectivity platform.
The UK government opened GBP62 million in space-sector funding, including a third C-LEO satcom technology round.
The startup's 100-meter deployable solar arrays have drawn $342.6 million in customer letters of intent.
Swissto12 raised a $70 million Series C to scale up HummingSat small-GEO satellite manufacturing.
Six-month-old Chinese startup LegendSpace raised 200 million yuan ($29.5M) to build AI-designed liquid rocket engines.
The SEC filing flags possible vertical integration into launch and an advanced-stage Rakuten joint venture for Japan's J-LEO program.
Zenno Astronautics will relocate its headquarters to Los Angeles, citing the US space industry's scale and talent pool.
Hanwha-backed Flexell Space closed a $20 million Series A to scale its flexible perovskite and CIGS space solar cells.
Per Evercore ISI's Kutgun Maral: SpaceX's post-IPO slide makes the upside 'too compelling to ignore.'
Voyager closed its acquisition of lunar lander maker Astrobotic, now renamed Voyager Lunar Systems.
The Long March 12B developer's registered capital nearly tripled to about 4.17 billion yuan as investors expanded stakes.
ESA's 2026 report found European space budgets grew 12% to €13.5 billion in 2025, the fastest rise in five years.
Poland will host ESA's first center in an eastern-flank member state and is raising its ESA funding roughly tenfold for 2026-2028.
Orbit Fab hires new CEO, raises $25M ahead of Series B
China's Hongqing Technology raises $191 million
Sybilla Technologies raises $10 million to expand SSA network
OHB raises 510 million euros for manufacturing
Blue Origin's first outside round, reported at $10B/$130B, is now CEO-confirmed as oversubscribed and still open.
MDA Space is acquiring a 70% stake in French EO data analytics firm CLS for 567 million euros, per SpaceNews.
York Space Systems closed its purchase of satcom terminal maker All.Space at $300 million, down from the $355 million first announced.
Intesa Sanpaolo, the EIB and ESA launched a EUR 300 million financing facility for Italy's aerospace supply-chain SMEs.
Venus Aerospace closed a $91 million Series B to move its rotating detonation rocket engine from flight test to production.
Per SpaceNews, Orbit Fab appointed Peter Shaper as CEO and raised over $25 million in interim funding ahead of a Series B round.
SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 at a market value near $2 trillion, its shares slipping on the debut.
Per Morgan Stanley: SpaceX is worth $300 a share on reusable rockets, Starlink and AI infrastructure; Goldman sees $205.
Eurospace's 2025 report shows European space industry sales up 23% to EUR10.9 billion, with EO overtaking telecom as the top segment.
Pixxel closed its Series C at $100 million co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, India's largest space-tech funding round to date.
On July 6, 2026, Iridium said it completed its acquisition of the remaining 61% of Aireon, the space-based air-traffic-surveillance venture it did not alread...
Ravee Optics raised a $6 million seed round to build compact meta-optics laser communication terminals for small satellites.
Jilin-1 operator Chang Guang Satellite raised about 5 billion yuan for satellite production and constellation growth.
A satellite-manufacturing affiliate of launch company Landspace raised over 1.3 billion yuan from state-linked banks and investment funds.
Poland's Sybilla Technologies raised about $10 million to grow its optical sensor network and enter the US market.
Mitsubishi Electric took full ownership of Japanese ground-station-as-a-service provider Infostellar; terms undisclosed.
Dish DBS and Dish Wireless file prepackaged Chapter 11; EchoStar, Hughes and the AT&T spectrum sale continue.
Rocket Lab agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in a cash-and-stock deal valuing Iridium at about $8 billion enterprise value.
Rocket Lab and Iridium Communications said they signed a definitive agreement for Rocket Lab to acquire all outstanding Iridium common stock, per a joint press release filed as an exhibit to Rocket Lab's 8-K with the SEC on June 29, 2026. Iridium stockholders will receive $27.00 in cash plus Rocket Lab shares under an exchange ratio collared between $67.50 and $112.50, a structure the companies say has a notional value of $54.00 per Iridium share and implies an $8.0 billion enterprise value. Both boards approved the deal unanimously, Rocket Lab has commitments for a $3.6 billion bridge loan from Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo, and the companies expect to close in mid-2027 subject to Iridium stockholder and regulatory approval. On July 6, 2026, Iridium said it completed its acquisition of the remaining 61% of Aireon, the space-based air-traffic-surveillance venture it did not already own, paying about $367 million to providers in Canada, England, Denmark, Ireland, and Italy, per SpaceNews, consolidating Aireon as a wholly owned subsidiary ahead of the Rocket Lab deal's close. The FCC accepted the companies' license-transfer applications for filing on September 16, opening a public-comment period running through November 9, per Stocktwits; Iridium's shareholders are scheduled to vote on the merger at a special meeting on September 24, per Iridium's definitive proxy filing as reported by TradingView. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said September 22 that Iridium's L-band spectrum, not its satellites, is the deal's core asset: "Spectrum is physics. You can't just magic up spectrum," he said, estimating Rocket Lab could have deployed a comparable constellation for roughly $350 million instead of the deal's $8 billion price, per Stocktwits.
The Blue Ghost descent-navigation supplier joins Firefly; no deal terms were disclosed in the announcement.
MaiaSpace's 2025 loss pushed shareholders' equity to -€823,375; ArianeGroup voted against dissolving the launch startup.
Senior notes from 5.35% due 2031 to 6.65% due 2056, mainly to repay the pre-IPO bridge loan, per the company's 8-K.
OHB is issuing new shares worth roughly 510 million euros to fund manufacturing capacity and its RFA launch subsidiary.
Per Securities Times via Reuters: up to three new investors for at most a 20% combined stake to fund constellation buildout.
The all-cash deal buys RTX's smallsat bus maker, 400+ staff and two Denver plants, closing by end of 2026 pending CFIUS.
The Vienna TU Wien spinout gets grants and equity to industrialise its chemical Jetpack thrusters, per SpaceNews.
The fund calls it the largest single philanthropic grant to wildfire detection; Muon Space builds the satellites.
SpaceX's Cursor acquisition became effective Aug. 14, converting Cursor into a wholly owned SpaceXAI division.
Balerion Space Ventures led the round; Dawn says it is cash-flow positive with 200 thrusters flown on 50+ satellites.
Comtech agreed to sell most of its Satellite and Space Communications segment to Gilat's Wavestream unit for $157.5 million.
SpaceX sold 555.6M shares at $135 and closed its first day near $161, a $2.1 trillion valuation, per CNBC.
SpaceX priced 555,555,555 Class A shares at $135.00 each in its initial public offering, for proceeds to the company before expenses of $74,499,999,925, and began trading on Nasdaq on June 12 under the ticker SPCX. Per its prospectus, underwriters hold a 30-day option for up to 83,333,333 additional shares, and Elon Musk retains about 82.4% of voting power after the offering through the dual-class structure. Per CNBC, the stock opened at $150, closed near $161, up 19%, valuing the company around $2.1 trillion, with more than 500 million shares traded on the first day; TechCrunch called it the largest IPO in history, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's 2019 debut.
Per Reuters: a $2.57M Technology Adoption Fund grant to develop AI models for Earth observation, one of three projects selected.
ICEYE's primary Series F values the SAR operator above EUR 10B; the full round tops EUR 1B with a secondary placement.
A new ATM agreement with 10 banks allows up to $500M in share sales; the month-old May ATM was terminated the same day.
The Bridenstine-led spacecraft maker merges with Inflection Point VI, with a $300M PIPE, targeting Nasdaq as QSPC in Q4.
The UK startup targets 200-300 km very low Earth orbit with air-breathing ion propulsion; first flight planned for 2028.
Planet Labs can now sell up to $1.5 billion in shares over time through banks acting as sales agents.
Apex closed a $200 million round led by Glade Brook Capital, nearly doubling its valuation to $2.3 billion.
Voyager will acquire lunar lander pioneer Astrobotic for up to $300 million in cash and stock, expected to close by early July 2026.
CASIC's Aerospace Sanjiang sold a 29.6% ExPace stake to Wuhan state investors for about 3.3 billion yuan, ending its majority control.
The space situational awareness company merges with Viking Acquisition Corp. I, targeting NYSE as NSTR in Q3 2026.
Amazon Leo will absorb Globalstar's satellite fleet and direct-to-device spectrum rights in a deal expected to close in 2027.
Amazon agreed April 14, 2026 to acquire Globalstar for up to $90 per share in cash or Amazon stock, a deal worth roughly $11.6 billion, per Amazon's own release. Globalstar shareholders holding about 58% of voting power approved the deal by written consent. Closing is expected in 2027, subject to regulatory approvals and Globalstar meeting satellite-deployment milestones tied to its HIBLEO-4 replacement constellation, with up to $110 million of downward price adjustment if those milestones are missed, per Amazon and IoT Business News. Amazon said it will use Globalstar's direct-to-device spectrum licenses and more than 30 years of low Earth orbit satellite operations expertise to build a next-generation Amazon Leo direct-to-device system. Globalstar CEO Paul Jacobs said the combination "will advance innovations in digital connectivity," and Apple SVP Greg Joswiak noted Apple and Amazon's existing infrastructure relationship, per Amazon's release. The FCC approved the transfer of Globalstar's licenses to Amazon on Oct. 27, finding no competitive harm and noting the deal would let Amazon Leo offer direct-to-device service to underserved areas and improve emergency communications, per Via Satellite and Light Reading; the commission dismissed a competing bidder's objection due to a separate arbitration dispute.
Orbex filed for UK administration in February after Series D funding talks and an acquisition by The Exploration Company both fell through.
Orbex, developer of the UK's Prime small launch vehicle, filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators on February 11, 2026, after failing to close a Series D funding round or complete a previously announced acquisition by French company The Exploration Company, per SpaceNews, Via Satellite, and European Spaceflight. Orbex, a winner of ESA's European Launcher Challenge that had received EUR34.9 million ($41.5 million) from the program, had already shut down its Danish rocket-engine subsidiary and laid off about 90 employees in January; administration puts roughly 150 further UK jobs at risk. CEO Phil Chambers said: "Disappointing doesn't come close to describing how we feel about this moment."
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales signed an MOU to combine space units into one company with 25,000 staff and EUR 6.5bn revenue.
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales signed a memorandum of understanding on October 23, 2025 to combine their space businesses into a new, jointly controlled company, per Via Satellite. Airbus will hold 35% of the new venture and Leonardo and Thales 32.5% each; the combination pools Airbus's Space Systems and Space Digital units, Leonardo's Space Division including its stakes in Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, and Thales's own shares in Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio and Thales SESO (launchers are excluded). The companies project the venture will have about 25,000 employees across Europe, roughly EUR 6.5 billion in pro-forma 2024 revenue, and a backlog covering more than three years of sales, with operations expected to start in 2027 subject to regulatory approvals.