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government
BlackSea wins $256M U.S. Navy award for sea-based fuel distribution & logistics (TD).
CACI wins $114M U.S. Navy award for sealift command logistics (GW).
Vantor wins $70M NGA GEOINT Delivery award to fuse unclassified satellite, drone, and sensor data (VS).
PlanetiQ wins $15M USAF STRATFI award for GNSS occultation for weather data models (AT).
pre seed / seed
ParcelBio exits stealth with $13M Seed for mRNA therapies to sustain proteins for chronic diseases (LT).
series A+
Helsing raises $1.2B by Dragoneer, Lightspeed at a $18B valuation for autonomous drones & underwater vessels (FT).
Astranis raises $300M Series E by Franklin Templeton, Snowpoint Ventures for GEO satellite production (VS).
Cowboy Space raises $275M Series A at a $2B valuation for rockets to launch data centers (SW).
Xoople raises $130M Series B by Nazca Capital for optical sensor satellites for enterprise GIS buyers (TC).
Skyroot Aerospace raises $60M equity-debt Series B at a $1.1B pre-money valuation by Sherpalo, GIC, BlackRock for small sat launch (TC).
LiveEO raises $33M Series A for ISR for infrastructure monitoring in Europe (SN).
Lunar Outpost raises $30M Series B by Industrious, Type One, Eniac, Promus, Reliable for lunar robotics (TV).
Darkhive raises $30M Series B by RTX, Bison, Draper, 1011, Stellar for autonomy & edge software (TD).
Heaviside exits stealth with $28M Series A by Interlagos, Menlo, Flume, Cantos, Anorak for autonomous precision munitions (TD).
Anello Photonics raises $25M Series B by MESH, LMV, Catapult, Mana, IronGate, One Madison, New Legacy for GPS-denied navigation (TD).
OpsMil raises $14M Series A by IRIS, Serena, Partech for infrastructure data automation (TV).
m&a
public
Applied Aerospace to IPO carrying a contract backlog of $1.1B (BBG).
headlines
BlackSky wins $30M defense contract for high-res hypersonic imagery (SN).
Anduril, Impulse, K2, Voyager, Sandia partner on USSF SSC OTA award for Golden Dome interceptors (VS).
Raytheon, Rocket Lab partner on USSF SSC award for Golden Dome interceptors (AT).
Lockheed Martin, Firefly, Seagate partner on maritime spaceports for national security (SN).
DIU x DoW offer award for modular data centers.
U.S. SBA requests public input on domestic manufacturing chokepoints critical to support American Dynamism.
orbital classifieds
weekly opportunities
funding rounds
1 Skymapper - Series A - ionospheric optical sensing.
2 Tuurny - Series A - end of life for electronics ; precious metals.
3 Stealth - Seed / Series A - China-independent actuators manufacturing ; backed by a16z, ff.
4 Saturn Robotics - Seed - motors & actuators manufacturing ; patent + American dynamism.
5 Kvasi - Seed - robotics rig.
7 Mythril Motors - Seed - custom motor design for drones ; American dynamism.
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