Honeywell is shipping magnetic-anomaly navigation to drones in 2026. The technique can't be jammed or spoofed because it emits nothing; the bottleneck is a missing anomaly map, now a policy target for 2027.
The grid can move more power than it does. Dynamic line rating uses sensors and weather forecasting to rate lines in real time, unlocking 20-30% extra capacity. Heimdall Power's 900 km National Grid framework shows it is now bought at system scale.
The US interconnection queue holds 2.6 TW of proposed projects, twice the existing fleet, with five-year waits. Pearl Street's SUGAR, GridUnity and a $30M DOE push are automating the studies and consolidating the field into a software market.
NASA deorbits the ISS in 2030-2031. Vast, Axiom, Orbital Reef and Starlab all hold funded agreements and hardware in production. One procurement decision, due in late August, will decide which architecture owns the next decade of low Earth orbit.
Ratio Therapeutics raised $70 million to push actinium-225 targeted alpha therapy through its ATLAS Phase 1/2 sarcoma trial and expand manufacturing. The real bet is on the isotope: supply, not trial design, has been the field's bottleneck.
K2 Space raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation to scale production of large high-power satellites. Its Gravitas platform is already in orbit with 12 hosted payloads; the open question is whether a 100-satellite-a-year factory can actually work.
Gecko Robotics won a five-year, $71M Navy IDIQ to inspect ships with wall-climbing robots, starting with 18 vessels in the Pacific Fleet. The same robot-plus-data platform reads power plants, refineries and pipelines, and now anchors a manufacturing facility in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
Three months ago Panthalassa was valued at roughly $1 billion. Now investors are reportedly pricing it at $2 billion before a single commercial node has floated in the open ocean. The Information reported on August 6 that the company is raising $225 million at a post-money valuation approaching $2
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