TDK Ventures, Accel set to back India’s EtherealX in reusable launch vehicle push: sources
EtherealX aims to take on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 with its fully reusable rocket.
Jared Isaacman confirmed as next head of NASA
Isaacman will run the space agency at a time when Trump is trying to both downsize it and task it with returning astronauts to the Moon.
India’s Digantara raises $50M for space-based missile defence tech
With this funding, Digantara has raised $64.5 million in total.
Overview Energy wants to beam energy from space to existing solar farms
The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.
OSHA investigating new crane accident at SpaceX’s Starbase facility
A subcontractor says he was crushed by a metal support, breaking his hip, knee, and tibia. He’s suing SpaceX and the construction company who employed him.
SpaceX reportedly planning 2026 IPO with $1.5T valuation target
The company is looking to raise $30 billion, which would make it the biggest IPO ever, just ahead of Saudi Aramco’s in 2019.
SpaceX reportedly in talks for secondary sale at $800B valuation, which would make it America’s most valuable private company
The eye-popping figure reflects how routine mega-valuations have become in private markets.
Microreactor startup Antares raises $96M for land, sea, and space-based nuclear power
Antares is designing and building small modular reactors that it plans to deploy for commercial, space, and defense applications.
Varda says it has proven space manufacturing works — now it wants to make it boring
CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn’t “in the space industry; we’re in-space industry,” he said. Space is “just another place to ship to.”
Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites
The discovery suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected.