Discover the cutting-edge launch systems, orbital infrastructure, and commercial space innovations expanding humanity's footprint and building the new space economy.
The Pentagon keeps moving from satellite hardware to satellite services. Viasat's first task order under the Marine Corps MECS2 vehicle — $42 million against a $307 million ceiling — is the clearest test yet: watch task order velocity, not the ceiling.
Google will launch a refrigerator-sized satellite on October 1 carrying four TPUs and roughly one kilowatt of solar power. It is the first real test of whether AI compute can operate in orbit — and a signal that hyperscalers are taking space-based data centers seriously.
Outpost Technologies turned its reusable return vehicle into a product on September 24, launching Space Factories: standardized modules that let companies make goods in microgravity and get them back without building a spacecraft program.
Project-S emerged from stealth on 2 September 2026 with a multi-million-euro seed led by Uni.Fund II and backed by ESA incubator programmes and Bavarian grants. It is building space-based radar, AI analytics and collision-avoidance software for the debris crowding low Earth orbit.
Hubble Network closed a $200M Series C at a $1.6B valuation and opened its satellite network to general availability, letting any Bluetooth LE device report to orbit through a firmware update. The constellation runs six satellites today and plans sixty by 2030.
Europe's newest space unicorn closed a €300M Series C on the strength of four European plants, a one-satellite-a-day production line, and five straight years of profit.
Firefly Aerospace's September deal with SSC Space puts two Alpha launches at Esrange in Sweden by 2028. The bigger question: can a company funding launch, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles at once turn signed capacity into flown missions?
Starcloud closed a $250M Series A extension at a $2.3B valuation, with Nvidia and Cisco investing. It has raised $450M to build AI data centers in orbit, a bet that now depends on launch capacity and insurance rather than silicon.