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Northwood hits $2B valuation: Ex-Disney star’s ground station startup raises $375M from a16z and DFJ Growth
Northwood Space, a US-based spacetech startup co-founded by Bridgit Mendler, raised $375 million in a Series C round…
Rejected by SpaceX twice, Austrian startup Tumbleweed raises €6.9M to fly experiments in orbit
After being rejected by SpaceX twice, Tumbleweed, an Austrian spacetech startup, has successfully launched Austria’s first commercial satellite…
SpaceX seeks $40B led by Apollo to buy Nvidia chips, four months after its $86B IPO: Report
SpaceX is in talks to raise about $40 billion to pay for a huge order of Nvidia AI…
Google’s Project Suncatcher: 5 things to know about its plan to put AI chips in space
Google has put roughly one server’s worth of computing power into orbit. The company launched a prototype satellite…
Foundational raises £8.2M for satellite laser ranging network backed by Inflection, Final Frontier
Foundational states that its satellite laser ranging is so accurate that it’s as if you could tell from…
Varda raises $251M led by Lux Capital and Natural Capital to make medicines in orbit
Varda Space Industries is still working towards its first medicine made in space. Investors have now put $251…
Hubble Network raises $200M Series C at $1.6B valuation to take Bluetooth connectivity to space
Alex Haro spent years hearing the same objection: physics wouldn’t let a Bluetooth chip, the same kind sitting…
Inside ARIA’s £70M programme to build flying satellites: 18 teams racing to keep aircraft aloft for a week
Satellites need to withstand rocket launches and radiation, and remain in orbit indefinitely. Advanced Research + Invention Agency,…
Open Cosmos zips €300M to scale European satellite manufacturing
Open Cosmos took only two and a half months to go from securing satellite spectrum licences to launching…
