Starcloud seeks more orbital data center funding shortly after unicorn status
Starcloud is looking to raise at least $200 million in a deal that would double the two-year-old orbital data center startup’s valuation to about $2.2 billion, a source close to the situation confirmed.
Trump nominates Schiess as next Space Force chief
Career space operator would succeed Gen. Chance Saltzman atop military space branch
Amazon Leo passes 300 satellites with Atlas and Ariane launches
A pair of launches this week pushed the number of Amazon Leo satellites deployed to more than 300, but the company is still far short of a looming FCC milestone.
The opportunity beyond orbital data centers
Investor attention is starting to shift toward ventures that could be enabled by orbital data centers, even as the massive computing networks proposed by SpaceX and others remain years from reality.
CEO Series: Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on making Golden Dome a success
In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on how he’s thinking about AI, how he defines space superiority and what needs to happen to make […]
NASA to increase value of CLPS contract to support surge of lunar lander missions
NASA is planning to increase the total value of a contract for robotic lunar lander missions to support a proposed surge in flights for the agency’s moon base plans.
Why Artemis II’s Eclipse Footage Matters More Than Its Engineering
No human had ever sat inside the moon’s shadow. When Artemis II’s Orion capsule rounded the lunar far side on April 1, 2026, its four-person crew became the first, witnessing 54 minutes of totality from a vantage point that no Earth-bound observer could match in duration, scale, or perspective. The geometry of Orion’s free-return trajectory […]
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DARPA’s LASSO Bet: Three Companies, One Brutal Orbit, and the Hunt for Lunar Ice
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Benchmark Space Systems, Quantum Space, and Revolution Space to develop competing concepts for a small lunar orbiter capable of hunting water ice from altitudes most spacecraft cannot survive. The agency confirmed the three Phase 1 awards on April 30 for its Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter […]
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From Bespoke to Build-to-Print: How CLPS Is Engineering Lunar Landers Into a Production Line
NASA has moved to raise the ceiling on its Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract from $2.6 billion to $4.2 billion, a 61% jump that signals the agency intends to buy far more robotic Moon landings than its current cadence supports. The increase, disclosed in a procurement filing on SAM.gov, is the contractual scaffolding for an […]
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Artemis 3 plans remain uncertain as schedule slips
More than two months after NASA announced revised plans for the Artemis 3 mission, the agency has provided few details about the mission amid signs its schedule may be slipping.
