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 👇.

RT @itsmoislam: Chris Kemp (@Kemp) took @Astra public in 2021 with a bold vision: low-cost rockets launching daily, bringing sovereign spac….

.@CisLunarInd announced $1M in seed funding from the Colorado ONE Fund today. The investment will help CisLunar hire more engineers and scale the production of its power processing units (PPUs), CEO Gary Calnan told Payload.

.@NorthwoodSpace, the El Segundo, CA-based satellite ground segment startup, announced yesterday that its production terminal—called Portal—passed its first operational tests ahead of deployment later this year.

Veterans of @SpaceX's hiring team have launched a new, hard tech venture fund with a unique approach to working with portfolio companies: They help find the right talent to boost early-stage startups.

.@EnduroSat, the Bulgarian satellite manufacturer and service provider, has announced the appointment of Rusty Thomas to lead its US business.

RT @tectonicdefense: From @PortalSpaceSys's Jeff Thornburg, here's what people get wrong about NASA and SpaceX. NASA can't fail, but SpaceX….

.@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 €169M ($198.3M).

Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC (LH3M) secured its fifth US patent last month, covering the company’s end-to-end architecture for He-3 detection, extraction, and refinement on the Moon.

.@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.

The fireworks were a little bigger at Boeing’s Independence Day celebrations: On July 3, SSC awarded the company a $2.8B contract to deliver two highly secure communications satellites for nuclear command and control.

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 launcher’s Prime and Proxima rockets.

.@AstSpacemobile and its long-time investor, @vodafone, deepened their partnership this week with the formation of a new joint venture—SatCo—in Luxembourg.

What’s the purpose of a SBIR award? That’s the question at the heart of a lawsuit York Space Systems has filed against the military, over a contract awarded to fellow satellite builder Apex Space.

RT @PortalSpaceSys: 🖖 “We couldn’t make Star Trek happen if we didn’t innovate the engines that push humanity around.”. Portal CEO @JeffTho….

The future of the US lunar return hinges on @SpaceX and @blueorigin’s development of landers that can bring astronauts from the Orion spacecraft down to the surface of the Moon.

Outside of a few hubs, space policymakers rarely have technical expertise to rely on when crafting rules that will guide the industry—and engineers creating the next wave of space tech rarely think about how their systems will be governed.

Atomic-6 won a $2M contract from SSC to continue development of its Light Wing solar array, which collapses to enable RPO and stealth missions.

.@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).

Objects in orbit stay there for a long time, and we keep putting more up there. Now, researchers say that despite efforts by satellite operators to limit collisions, popular orbits are too crowded for long-term stability.

Skynopy secured €15M ($17.6M) in seed funding to accelerate the expansion of its ground station network, and attempt to meet growing demand for data downlink services.