Discover the cutting-edge launch systems, orbital infrastructure, and commercial space innovations expanding humanity's footprint and building the new space economy.
EdgeCortix SAKURA-II's USAF flight test and NASA radiation validation prove on-orbit AI inference is production-ready. The convergence of radiation-hardened edge silicon and falling launch costs is turning orbital compute from a research concept into an investable infrastructure layer.
DARPA's RSGS mission launches summer 2026 on SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the first US robotic satellite servicing vehicle. A generation of startups is building autonomous assembly technologies for the next generation of orbital infrastructure.
Space-based quantum key distribution is moving from labs to market. SEALSQ is building a 100-satellite constellation. SpeQtral launched its CubeSat. The gap between ambition and operational reality is still wide.
$455M market by 2034. Varda signed the first commercial pharma deal in orbit. BioOrbit flew crystals on the ISS. Inside the emerging orbital drug manufacturing industry.
Apeiron Labs raised $9.5M to deploy swarms of low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The compact cloud-connected drones dive 400m, sampling temperature and acoustics for defense and civilian customers.
Astroscale, ClearSpace, Starfish Space, and D-Orbit are turning orbital cleanup into a commercial market. With $1.35B projected for 2026, FCC deorbit mandates, and the first robotic capture missions moving past demonstration, the sector is crossing from government contracts into real revenue.
The satellite startup that bet against the small-satellite orthodoxy and won $500M+ in Pentagon and commercial contracts before its first operational delivery.
True Anomaly raised $650M at $2.2B valuation for the Space Force Golden Dome program — the largest single raise by a space defense startup.