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Infrastructure

* Orbit Fab announced their Raven and Nest fuel transportation and orbital fuel depot vehicles respectively, boasting a combined fueling capacity of roughly 200 kg. [source]

* Dawn Aerospace announced their Loop Network consisting of a Space Utility Vehicle (SUV) and Orbital Propulsion Depot (OPD) offering to refuel satellites that have their 600 gram docking port installed. [source]

* Terraspark raised €5.4M for space-to-earth solar power generation and transmission led by Daphni, Better Ventures, and the Hans(Wo)man Group. [source]

* Vast and Cedars-Sinai partnered for a drug discovery and development project in Vast-Haven-1’s ExoBiosphere module in 2027. [source]

* Rhea Space raised ~$6M for a deep space optical PNT solution using star tracker and geographic marker data to provide a fully ‘offline’ positioning, navigation, and timing product. [source]

* Boeing and Millenium partnered to develop a new ‘mid-class’ micro-geo bus platform in the 2-4 kW power range titled ‘Resolute’. [source]

* AST Spacemobile launched the Bluebird 7 aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn-3 mission and announced the decommission of the satellite in the same day after New Glenn-3 failed to deliver Bluebird 7 to the required orbit, leaving it stranded roughly 400 km below its target altitude at 150 km. [source]

* Seagate Space and Oceaneering announced a partnership to build and deliver the Gateway sea launch platform to customers and clients with launch capacity available as early as 2027. [source]

* Rocket Lab announced the Gauss electric thruster: a Hall Effect thruster designed from the ground up for high-volume manufacturing and a target unit production of 200 Gauss annually. [source]

Defense

* Northstar Space, the Canadian space-to-space situational awareness company announced their intention to enter the public market via SPAC. [source]

* Citra Space raised a $15M Series A round led by Washington Harbour Partners to further their object classification software playing in the SDA and RPO spaces. [

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