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Launch

* Stoke Space announced an extension of their Series D financing round to $860M, adding $350M to the initial $510M raised in October 2025 bringing their total funds raised to $1.34B. This money is intended to accelerate the deployment of their Nova launch vehicle, and operationalization of the Cape Canaveral Launch Pad 14. [source]

* ULA’s Vulcan rocket successfully launched 3 USSF-87 payloads, two military GEO-comm satellites and an RPO GEO satellite. During the launch, however, one of the solid boosters suffered a burn-through like the last launch did which could pause launches again for another investigation. [source]

* Arianespace’s Ariane 64 had its inaugural launch for this 4 solid booster variant. 32 Amazon Leo satellites were successfully deployed. [source]

* Hypersonica has emerged from stealth, announcing a €23.3M Series A funding round [source] and the successful completion of a hypersonic missile test out of the Andoya space port. [source]

* Orbex has officially entered insolvency proceedings after its planned acquisition by The Exploration Company fell through, Skyrora has announced plans to buy some assets. [source]

* The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has completed an integrated flight test of its next-generation Mengzhou crew capsule and the Long March 10a reusable rocket. This test successfully demonstrated the in-flight abort capability of Mengzhou, and the landing capability of LM-10a. [source]

* Interstellar Glory Space Technology (iSpace) raised a ¥5B ($729M) D++ funding round to deploy its reusable methalox launch vehicle Hyperbola-3. [source]

Habitats

* Axiom Space raised $350M led by Type One Ventures and Qatar Investment Authority to develop their ISS replacement Axiom Station and Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit moon suits. [source]

* Voyager Technologies was awarded a new IDIQ contract for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, with a ceiling of $24.5 million for a four-year period, to provide full-service mission management services to the International Space Station [source]

* Vast has been selected by NASA for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Launching no earlier than summer 2027, the commercial crew will spend up to 14 days aboard the station. [

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