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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,…
September 15, 2026
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…
September 14, 2026
Aerospacelab wins €2.4B contract to build 264 satellites for IRIS
Aerospacelab has been selected as a key prime contractor for the low Earth orbit, or LEO, segment of…
September 11, 2026
SpaceX challenger Stoke Space raises $1B as it gears up for first orbital flight
Stoke Space has closed the first tranche of a $1 billion Series E, taking the reusable-rocket startup’s total…
September 8, 2026
The Exploration Company lands $450M for reusable space capsule, backed by Bessemer, Atomico and EQT
The Exploration Company, a Munich-based space tech company also known as TEC, has just completed a Series C…
September 8, 2026
HyImpulse raises €50M from JOIN Capital and Ace Capital to scale Europe’s rocket launches
Four engineers left the German Aerospace Center, also known as DLR, to found HyImpulse Technologies, a rocket company…
September 2, 2026
PLD Space tops up Series C to €288M as Spain’s answer to SpaceX races towards commercial launch
Two engineers set up a rocket company in Elche, a Spanish city famous for shoe production, immediately after…
September 1, 2026
Former SpaceX engineer lands $250M for Muon Space to build 500 satellites a year
Muon Space, the Mountain View satellite maker, has closed a $250 million Series C led by Eclipse Capital.…
August 21, 2026
Ex-Portuguese Space Agency chief’s Neuraspace raises €15.6M to protect satellites with AI
Space used to be big enough to ignore. It isn’t anymore — and the woman who once ran…
August 5, 2026