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 👇

.@StarfishSpace and @GoToImpulse teamed up quietly this year to conduct an RPO demo in orbit, bringing spacecraft to within 1,250 meters of each other autonomously. https://t.co/hAOfWlr5zc

The Moon had a hell of a year. In the long push to get people back to the Moon—and this time, to bring with them long-term, sustainable infrastructure to support an ongoing lunar presence—2025 has been pivotal. https://t.co/oSYuyN1A6w

.@Georgetown announced that it had established a space studies concentration under the STIA major last month—a move that follows nearly six years of students lobbying for the school to be a pioneer in educating the next generation of space leaders. https://t.co/0S4Wbejowe

A $3B valuation before ever launching a satellite? Stranger things have happened. @K2SpaceCo announced yesterday that it secured a $250M Series C ahead of its first satellite launch early next year. https://t.co/YR0PryyOZn

European officials have spent much of 2025 promoting sovereign defensive capabilities in space. A new partnership between @KOGDefence and @HelsingAI, a German defense tech company, isn’t wasting any time turning talk into action. https://t.co/HZXUWR2DyO

The inaugural Space Investment Conference kicked off in London this week, bringing together founders and investors to discuss the financial future of the space industry—which now has more money than ever. https://t.co/zo5ZuschpO

A new startup out of California—called Fortastra—announced it closed an $8M seed round to develop spacecraft aiming to provide physical security to government and commercial sats for when that day inevitably comes. https://t.co/p5IZDayG6O

Finland’s @KuvaSpace and @WWF-Indonesia have launched a first-of-its-kind effort to test whether hyperspectral satellite data can reliably measure how much carbon is stored in Indonesia’s mangrove and seagrass ecosystems. https://t.co/iLjdGCNNY3

Hot off the press: @payloadspace's look at @SpaceX's $1.5T valuation, IPO plans, comps, and what we're hearing on financials. We discuss: – Revenue and EBITDA – Starlink customer growth – Public comps: EV/sales + EV/EBITDA – Thoughts on the $1.5T valuation – SpaceX's head start

Geospatial intelligence startup @wherobots launched a new product today—called RasterFlow—aimed at making EO data more accessible. https://t.co/R61PJ6uXmd

.@OverviewEnergy has raised $20M towards building a fleet of satellites in geosynchronous orbit that are designed to collect solar power in space, and use low-intensity, near-infrared light to deliver that power to Earth’s existing solar energy grid. https://t.co/Epl5ZFQlKN

.@anysignalinc announced this morning that it closed a $24M Series A, and is moving into a larger manufacturing facility to jumpstart production of its radio products for space and defense clients. https://t.co/BCwICYHC7e

SDA startup @LeoLabs_Space will integrate its data on orbital objects within the Space Force’s “Unified Data Library,” under the terms of a new contract from the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and the Space Force. https://t.co/cecM9WfV2m

No air on the Moon? No problem. A multinational project aiming to extract oxygen from lunar soil received £410,000 (~$294,000) from UKSA. https://t.co/r1oSYbXqvJ

The next generation of companies heading to the Moon are going in search of water. Japanese lunar infrastructure company @ispace_inc has just notched a new partnership in service of that goal. https://t.co/vjkqVEDxk3

Four space industry and China experts appeared before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics testifying that if the US doesn’t step up, it risks ceding space superiority to China. https://t.co/DBhPJFNuDq

.@MDA_space, a Canadian space tech company best known for the Canadarm robot-arm program, won a $44.7M CAD ($32M) contract from the Canadian government to supply parts for a new RADARSAT EO satellite. https://t.co/ZZ3o6BEOYj

.@esa published its “Document 100” breakdown. This shows funding commitments made by ESA contributing states to each line item on the agency’s €22.07B budget for the next three years. https://t.co/ouDl21yRZK

.@esa plans to keep subscriptions for a new defense initiative open for the next year, instead of following the typical process of finalizing funding at the close of each three-year ministerial meeting. https://t.co/AYtjaxHzav

SLI signed an initial agreement with AscendArc to purchase two small GEO satellites with a combined value of $200M+. The deal is expected to close in the next three months, and the satellites could fly as early as late 2028. https://t.co/BI4mVYMmG1