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The Starman that Lassoed the Moon with Lasers
Azora Space received a laser signal from Orion as it circled the moon 240,000 miles away using their mobile laser ground terminal On April 1, 2026 Artemis II launched astronauts back to the moon for the first time since 1972, capturing the imaginations of people…
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Paladin Space is Proactively De-Orbiting Debris to Make Space Safer
Paladin Space partnered with Portal Space Systems to launch their first satellite to capture multiple pieces of debris to clean up orbits On Earth we’ve long recognized that tossing our trash in the street is not a sustainable waste management strategy, and the companies that…
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Lux Aeterna’s $10M Seed Raise Fuels Delphi-1’s Oversubscribed Inaugural Mission
Lux Aeterna’s is funded to launch their reusable satellite platform allowing for fully recyclable and reusable missions with either 15 years of combined on orbit operation or 15 launch cycles, whichever comes first. The next major reductions in cost for access to space are almost…
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Open Cosmos Opens Space to New Possibilites with IoT Capability
Open Cosmos adds IoT capability to their high data rate interconnected imagery constellation, ConnectedCosmos, to add value for businesses and governments Earth Imaging has been going through a rebirth recently, the shift from raw satellite data to actionable insights has caused a fundamental shift in…
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Loft’s Recent Wins Prove Space Sovereignty and AI Missions Don’t Have to be Hard
Loft Orbital makes it simple for France to deploy sovereign SAR, and for 15+ companies to run AI on active satellites “Space is hard” is the axiom of the space industry, but Loft Orbital has made it their business to challenge that. Traditionally space missions…
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Atlas Cup Blasting Out of Stealth to Start Space Race 3.0
Atlas Cup is turning spacecraft racing into the next big sport with $1M prize There have been space races before: between governments through the Cold War, between companies since the early 2010’s, between rockets in 2009, and in countless films and media. Competition has been…
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Samara Aerospace – A Stable Platform after $10 M Seed Raise
Samara Aerospace secures $10M in Seed Funding to scale and deploy their Hummingbird Satellite The New Space economy has undergone explosive growth and development this decade, with technological advances leading the way in pioneering new products, capabilities, and markets. The global space economy has grown…
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Atomic-6 Protects Portal Space Systems
Portal Space Systems Selects Atomic-6 to Shield Their Critical Systems with Space Armor Space has, as the name suggests, a lot of space; ~1 trillion km3 of area in LEO, the most popular of orbits. Speeding around in that region is hundreds of millions of…
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Space Phoenix Rising in 2026 with $7.5M Raise for Seed Round
Space Phoenix announced $7.5 million secured for their seed round closing this month, Flawless Photonics as a new customer, and plans for their inaugural launch next year during their interview with Space Times Podcast! Watch the full episode to hear all the details from CEO…
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Introducing Space Times Podcast
Welcome to Space Times! Our thesis is to provide an evolving roadmap of the state of the space industry. Space is a vast and complex subject, and the media that covers it is mostly focused on topical news that provides disjointed snapshots of individual events,…