Discover the cutting-edge launch systems, orbital infrastructure, and commercial space innovations expanding humanity's footprint and building the new space economy.
Eclipse Space left stealth on June 26, founded by the people who scaled Starlink. The next build is fabless: design the satellite and keep the IP, assemble it in-country with a local partner. First hardware ships before end-2026, the demo satellite flies in 2027.
Xona Space raised a $170M Series C to scale Pulsar, a low-Earth-orbit PNT constellation marketed as a resilient GPS alternative. The piece breaks down the signal argument, the L-band pivot, the AFRL contract, and what a 2027 rollout means for navigation.
Amazon Leo asked for more time; the FCC said no and added a temporary spectral penalty instead. The 10,400-satellite gap between Starlink and Leo is now the entire trade for investors in private space assets.
Astronaut digital twins turn a year of one astronaut's molecular data into a training set for precision medicine on Earth. NASA open data and the first commercial spaceflight biobanks make it usable.
The cislunar economy is worth $14.99B in 2026 and one customer funds nearly all of it. NASA's CLPS anchors 17 deliveries on a $2.6B ceiling; CLPS 2.0 adds a $6B, 77-mission pipeline. A guide to where the revenue comes from, and the propellant bet that adds a second customer.
Starfish Space's $110M Series B and three commercial contracts make on-orbit servicing a recurring business, not a demonstration. The bet is a single-camera autonomy stack.
Venus Aerospace raised a $91M Series B to scale rotating detonation rocket engines after the first US flight test of a high-thrust RDRE. A Lockheed Martin agreement pushes the platform toward long-range precision systems.
SWISSto12's $70M Series C funds washing-machine-sized, 3D-printed geostationary satellites. Seven HummingSat orders form a $500M backlog, revenue hit $140M in 2025, and ESA's ARTES program funds in-orbit validation ahead of first delivery to SES in 2027.