Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI
The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople’s spacecraft.
Can orbital data centers help justify a massive valuation for SpaceX?
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk’s vision for data centers in space.
Artemis II is NASA’s last Moon mission without Silicon Valley
Next time around, the pressure will be on SpaceX and Blue Origin.
NASA astronauts prove that sending an email really is rocket science
NASA Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman faced the most earthly possible conflict while in outer space: his Outlook wasn’t working.
SpaceX files confidentially for IPO in mega listing potentially valued at $1.75 trillion, report says
The company has also lined up an unusually large number of 21 banks to manage the mega IPO, internally codenamed “Project Apex.”
Starcloud raises $170 million Series Ato build data centers in space
Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.
Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation
Index Ventures is said to be leading a $250 million to $350 million round.
With Sift Stack, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor
Sift is building the data infrastructure for advanced manufacturing.
Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem
Arinna builds solar cells specifically for spacecraft and has developed an ultrathin new material that it expects to be far more flexible and more efficient than current technology.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game
“Project Sunrise” would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.