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Main Topics

Comms

* York Space announced the purchase of ALL.SPACE for ~$355M in a scope style acquisition to expand York Space’s ground and mobile terminal technology capabilities while making ALL.SPACE a subsidiary that will continue operations. [source]

* Celestial Acquisition Co acquired Nokia’s Modul8 space cellular division after Nokia broke the Modul8 team out to a separate business entity earlier this year in an undisclosed acquisition price that involved $40M in debt financing from Scotia Bank. [source]

* The USSF awarded $11.2M to BAE to demo Golden Dome satellite comms with radios for Link-182 capability deployment, providing resilient communication solutions for the proliferated satellite architecture. [source]

* Viasat F3 satellite successfully launched, deployed solar arrays, and commissioned earlier this week and is now set to begin its ascent to final Geostationary orbit to deliver 1Tbps of throughput to the APAC region. [source]

Imaging

* DARPA announced they’ve selected Quantum Space and Revolution Space as well as Benchmark for execution of the LASSO program. [source]

* The Government of Canada terminated Spire Global Canada’s $72 million WildFireSat contract for convenience, indicating a mismatch in needs rather than an inability to execute on the contract. [source]

* Planet and Carbon Mapper announced a partnership to use Tanager for methane tracking starting with the hyperspectral camera’s first flight in 2028. [source]

Defense

* True Anomaly raised a $650M Series D round of funding bringing total capital raised for True Anomaly to over $1B at a valuation of over $2.2B. [source]

* The USSF issued $3M contracts to Assurance Technology, Raptor Dynamix, and Innovative Signal Analysis to develop radar counter-surveillance for GEO satellites. [source]

* Spaceflux raised £9M led by Blackfinch Ventures to develop and commercialize their ground optics product offerings for space situational awareness. [source]

Business Moves

* Seraphim Space announced their intent to raise $454M after demonstrating 411% returns over the last 3 year