Aerospace News
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- Iridium Stockholders Approve $8B Rocket Lab Acquisition With 99.6% Vote — — Iridium stockholders overwhelmingly cleared Rocket Lab's $8 billion cash-and-stock takeover with 99.6% of votes cast in favor, keeping the deal on tra...
- Anduril's YFQ-44A Fury Fit-Checks Air-to-Ground Munitions for USAF — — Anduril has revealed that its YFQ-44A Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft has completed fit-checks with a full family of air-to-ground weapons, expandi...
- NASA Picks $1.2B PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope As First Probe Explorer — — NASA has selected the PRIMA far-infrared space observatory, led by JPL and Caltech, as the first mission in its new Probe Explorers class, with a 2033...
- Helicon Bags $16M Seed From AlleyCorp To Automate Carbon-Fiber Factories — — Helicon Industries closes a $16M seed led by AlleyCorp to scale autonomous composite manufacturing cells that cut carbon-fiber part lead times from si...
- Otto Aerospace's Phantom 3500 Wins Fast Company Innovation By Design Award — — Otto Aerospace's laminar-flow Phantom 3500 clean-sheet business jet took a 2026 Fast Company Innovation by Design Award as the company advances toward...
- China Launches Four More PIESAT-2 SAR Satellites On Long March 2D — — A Long March 2D lifted PIESAT-2 satellites 13-16 to a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit on Sept 19, growing the GalaxySpace-built, PIESAT-operated commerci...
- Rocket Lab Marks 96th Electron Flight With 'Owl By The Dozen' Launch — — Rocket Lab lofts Synspective's 12th StriX satellite from Mahia in New Zealand, chalking up its 17th Electron launch of 2026 and reinforcing a partners...
- Air Force Sets December Emerald Flag As CCA Drones' First Live Kill-Chain Test — — The US Air Force will fly its YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A collaborative combat aircraft at Emerald Flag in December, the first end-to-end live kill chain with...
- Rocket Lab Notches 16th Electron Of 2026 With Earth-Observation 'Happily Ever Faster' — — Rocket Lab has flown its 16th Electron mission of 2026 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, delivering a confidential Earth-observation satellite to...
- Joby Launches First eIPP Flights In Texas With Fort Worth To DFW Hop — — Joby Aviation has begun the FAA's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program in Texas, flying its all-electric air taxi from Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airp...
- Circuits Integrated Hellas Bags Pre-Seed From Evercurious For CI-ONE Ka-Band Satcom Chip — — Athens-based semiconductor startup Circuits Integrated Hellas has closed a pre-seed round from Evercurious VC to commercialise CI-ONE, a Ka-band integ...
- Open Cosmos Bags €300M To Turn Europe Into A Space Data Superpower — — British-Spanish smallsat maker Open Cosmos raises €300M in a Lightrock-led round to expand four European satellite factories and scale its ConnectedCo...
- Vega-C lofts Sentinel-3C and FLEX to watch Earth's climate — — Avio's Vega-C rocket launched EUMETSAT's Sentinel-3C and ESA's FLEX satellites from Kourou in a double-header for Europe's climate-monitoring programm...
- IBM And NASA Ship Open-Source Lunar Foundation Model For Ice, Craters And Landing Sites — — NASA and IBM open-source the Lunar Foundation Model, joining the Prithvi family on Hugging Face and outperforming baselines by up to 23% on ice, crate...
- TEC Bags Europe's Largest-Ever Space Series C: $450M For Nyx And Storm — — Munich-based The Exploration Company raised $450M co-led by Bessemer, Atomico and the EQT Scaleup Europe Fund, betting Europe needs its own reusable r...
- Hermeus Taps Anduril's Lattice for Autonomous Quarterhorse Mk 2 Flight — — Hermeus has selected Anduril's Lattice for Mission Autonomy for the Quarterhorse Mk 2 supersonic aircraft - the first commercial deployment of the sof...
- Isar Aerospace Scrubs September 4 Spectrum Launch, Window Open Through Sept 10 — — Germany's Isar Aerospace called off a planned September 4 attempt to fly its second Spectrum rocket from Andøya, with the launch window for the 'Onwar...
- ISRO's GSLV Mk II Launches EOS-05, India's First Geosynchronous Imaging Satellite — — ISRO targeted a 5:25 p.m. ET liftoff on September 3, 2026 for its GSLV F17 mission, sending the 2,367 kg EOS-05 earth-observation satellite toward geo...
- HyImpulse Bags €50M Series A Extension To Fly Europe's Hybrid-Propulsion Rockets — — JOIN Capital and Ace Capital Partners co-lead a €50M+ extension into HyImpulse, pushing the German launcher's total funding past €125M ahead of a seco...
- Kepler Aerospace Raises $8M Seed To Build India's Integrated Satellite Intelligence Stack — — Blue Ashva-led seed capitalizes Kepler Aerospace's build-out of satellites, avionics and mission software after seven years of bootstrapping.