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Here’s everything that happened in the space industry for the week of July 19-25!

Main Topics

Rockets

* SpaceX’s Starship 13 launch concluded after successfully deploying 20 Starlink v3’s and a soft landing in the ocean. [source]

* The USSF tripled the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 funding from $5.6B to $17B for flexible launch with an additional $13.7B dedicated for heavy launch. [source]

* Chinese startup LegendSpace raised a $29.5M angel round led by Oasis Capital for AI rocket engine development. [source]

Infrastructure

* VXB Aerospace raised a $4M seed led by Dauntless Ventures for their AI engineering and parts design platform. [source]

* Deltavision raised €10.2M led by KT Ventures for fluidic systems. [source]

* Northrop launched their MRV mission to service GEO class satellites with refueling pods over the next decade. [source]

* Oris Space raised €5M for space to space power transfer with a 2027 demo planned with DCubed. [source]

* Senra systems raised $65M to update wire harnesses through their proprietary software and automation technology. [source]

* York Space delivered 21 additional satellites to their second wave of assets for PWSA’s Tier 1 Transport Layer. [source]

Moon

* Lunar Outpost joined ESA’s Moonraker mission, leading the thermal design and models-based systems engineering efforts, which is scheduled to launch in 2030. [source]

* Lunar Outpost announced a partnership with NVIDIA to leverage their Jetson platform and CUDA-X libraries on their current and upcoming lunar missions: LV2, LV3, and LV5. [source]

* iSpace awarded €65M from ESA to develop and deliver their MAGPIE lunar rover by 2029. [source]

* NASA selected 41 technology projects from 37 companies through their Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity focused on solving three major problems to enable further lunar and martian missions: powe