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Spacecraft

* Katalyst selected Arianespace to fly its RPO GEO spacecraft NEXUS-1 in 2027 to service a defense satellite and potentially commercial customers. [source]

* Symphony Space debuted their Adagio platform, a persistent on-orbit modular multi-mission payload platform. [source]

* Starfish Space announced a new partner for their Otter Pup 2 RPO target after the original RPO target pulled out of the contract in late 2025. [source]

* ORiS announced their involvement as the payload provider for the Araqys-D3 mission to test orbital-based power generation and laser-based power transmission. [source]

* Moog selected Redwire to provide the solar arrays for their Meteor spacecraft with a $12.8M ELSA-M contract. [source]

* Endurosat and MetaSensing partnered to fly Metasensing’s SAR payload on Endursat’s FRAME bus to provide a European sovereign SAR satellite. [source]

* There are rumors that Rocket Lab will be the bus provider for Equatys’ 2,800 satellite D2D constellation for the Middle East. [source]

Money Money Money

* Rocket Lab entered an equity distribution agreement that allows it to offer and sell up to $1,000,000,000 of common stock. [source]

* Starcloud raised a $170M Series A at a $1.1B valuation led by Benchmark Capital to fund the design of Starcloud-3 and establish Starcloud’s initial manufacturing facility. [source]

* Aetherflux announced they’re raising a $250-350M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Index Venture Fund to develop Orbital Data Centers while continuing to develop space solar power. [source]

* Xona raised a $170M Series C led by Mohari Ventures to accelerate the deployment of their Pulsar platform for next generation PNT, and scale their manufacturing. [source]

* NASA awarded Intuitive Machines $180.4M under CLPS’ fifth award to develop and launch the Intuitive Machines 5th mission using Nova-D lander to host a variety of scientific instruments on the Moon. [source]

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