Mark this one as the moment orbital defense became its own asset class. On April 28, Colorado-based True Anomaly announced a $650 million Series D fundraise that values the four-year-old startup at $2.2 billion. The round, first reported by Bloomberg, was co-led by Eclipse and Riot Ventures, with new investors including Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, […]

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There’s a moment that hits me pretty often when I’m out riding my bike through Saigon at night. I’ll glance up at the sky between the buildings, catch a smear of stars, and feel my chest do something strange. A quiet kind of recognition. We’re floating. But most of the time, I forget. We all […]

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 28, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, will premiere its National Space Day educational video on Friday, May […]

More than $8 billion is requested in 2027 to field space-based systems to track both ground and airborne targets

Imagine being ninety years old, strapping into a rocket, and shooting yourself out of the atmosphere. Most people in their nineties are slowing down. Watching their grandkids run around the yard. Reading the morning paper. Not William Shatner. In October 2021, the legendary Star Trek actor became the oldest person ever to fly to space, […]

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Picture this. You’re above Earth, strapped into the International Space Station. You glance out the window and there it is. Our planet. A swirling blue marble suspended in nothing. No borders. No politics. No to-do list. Just a fragile sphere holding everything that has ever mattered to you. Astronauts who experience this often describe a […]

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When people imagine where alien life might be, they tend to look outward. Exoplanets. Distant star systems. Some half-mythical planet around a star we’ll never visit. But here’s the strange truth most people never sit with. Scientists think life might exist right here, in our own solar system. Not little green men. Not Star Trek. […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Silicon Valley startup EraDrive is working with Northrop Grumman to enhance spacecraft autonomy with artificial intelligence.

On April 28, 2001, a sixty-year-old American businessman climbed into a Russian Soyuz capsule on a launchpad in Kazakhstan and rode it into orbit . He wasn’t a trained astronaut. He wasn’t on a government mission. He had simply written a very large cheque. His name was Dennis Tito, and twenty-five years ago today, he […]

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