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Joined August 2020
We are happy to announce that we have raised $650,000 in seed funding from @winklevosscap, @aweissman, @sammcingvale, @litcapital, @juliadewahl and a variety of investors. Thread ๐.
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.@Esa selected the winners of the first stage of its European Launcher Challenge (ELC). Each launcher now stands the chance to win a maximum of โฌ169M ($198.3M).
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.@K2SpaceCo, the CA-based startup building low-cost, high-power satellites optimized for MEO, has spent the last year buying down risk and burning up fuel in preparation for its first customer mission in February 2026.
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If Monopoly made a rocket themed board game, @Exolaunch would have a hotel on every space. The Berlin-based launch integrator announced a partnership with @orbexspace to sell satellite operators a ride on the UK launcherโs Prime and Proxima rockets.
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.@AstSpacemobile and its long-time investor, @vodafone, deepened their partnership this week with the formation of a new joint ventureโSatCoโin Luxembourg.
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RT @PortalSpaceSys: ๐ โWe couldnโt make Star Trek happen if we didnโt innovate the engines that push humanity around.โ. Portal CEO @JeffThoโฆ.
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The future of the US lunar return hinges on @SpaceX and @blueoriginโs development of landers that can bring astronauts from the Orion spacecraft down to the surface of the Moon.
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.@NOAA's FY 2026 budget proposal, released yesterday, includes plans to gut the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and terminate federal funding for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).
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.@Relativityspace began developing a methalox engine for its medium-lift Terran R rocket no earlier than 2021, and first fired it in late 2023. @RocketLab announced the methalox engine for its Neutron vehicle in 2021, and fired it in 2024.
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.@EutelsatGroup's โฌ1.35B fundraise, expected to close before the end of the year, will finance the replacement of sats in its OneWeb LEO constellation.
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The @EU_Commission released its long-awaited proposal for an EU Space Act. The act aims to boost the regionโs space industry.
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The fast-evolving orbital environment in the age of private space presents new challenges for nuclear strategy. In response, the @SWFoundation and @CarnegieCorp are starting a new program to bring together experts from both disciplines.
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.@Firefly_Space and the @SSCspace signed an agreement to establish launch operations at Swedenโs Esrange Space Centre near Kiruna, but a recent agreement between the US and Swedish governments have made the collaboration a reality.
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.@OrbitsEdge, a FL-based space computing startup, will send its first space rated computing platform to orbit early next year.
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