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SMRs, hypersonics & optical comms lead funding. Satellite Spotlight, Edition 48.

Imagining Forward
December 02, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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government

Boeing awarded $2.5B by USAF for 15 aerial refueling aircrafts (AT).
Saab awarded $219.8M by Sweden’s FMV for air defense sensors & command systems (AT).
BAE Systems awarded $22M US Navy contract for vertical missile launch canisters (SN).
GKN Aerospace awarded $15.8M by Sweden’s FMV for UAV production (AT).

pre seed / seed

Clover raises $36M Seed/Series A by Notable, Team8, SVCI for product design security (SW).
Opti raises $20M Seed by Hetz, Mayfield, YL for identity & access management (SW).
Runlayer exits stealth with $11M by Khosla for MCP threat detection (SW).
SpaceComputer raises $10M Seed by Maven11, Lattice to run blockchain transactions from space (TD).
MitoRx raises $7.2M pre Series A by Oshen for mitochondrial correctors competing with GLPs (LT).
Marble Imaging raises $6.2M by HTGF, BBM, Lightfield for earth observation (TV).
Neuracore raises $3M pre Seed by Earlybird for robotic infrastructure orchestration (TV).

series A+

X-energy raises $700M Series D to build small modular reactors (LT).
Aspen Neuroscience raises $115M Series C for cell therapy for Parkinson’s (LT).
Quindar raises $18M Series A by Washington Harbour, Booz Allen, FUSE, YC for classified mission ops (VS).

UK Defense, Space Agency & Space Command award Spaceflux three multiyear contracts for LEO space domain awareness (SW).
Bharat Electronics & Safran partner on air to ground weapons for Indian defense (AT).
Fleet Space maps expanded lithium deposits to accelerate target drilling (TC).
AWS invests $50B for 1.3GW of compute infrastructure for U.S. federal agencies (TC).
xAI & Seven States Power partner on $439M solar farms for 130MW of compute power (TC).
AST SpaceMobile expands broadband satellite production facilities in Texas & Florida (VS).
PacGeo & AI Analytics parter on AI-powered ISR for Canadian government agencies (SN).