Discover the cutting-edge launch systems, orbital infrastructure, and commercial space innovations expanding humanity's footprint and building the new space economy.
Apex raises $200M at $2.3B valuation for productized satellite bus manufacturing — three rounds, same amount, 14 months. The factory floor is the new bottleneck in space.
The U.S. Space Force is funding on-orbit refueling depots and space tugs for defence constellations, with Astroscale's Provisioner mission launching summer 2026.
The Space Force has committed over $140 million to satellite servicing contracts. Starfish Space, Astroscale, and Northrop Grumman are competing to become the orbital equivalent of a tow truck — and the Pentagon is already buying.
Pixxel’s six Firefly satellites combined with Aurora AI are turning orbital hyperspectral data into ranked mineral exploration targets. The NRO just validated the technology.
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.
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