AGU25 (American Geophysical Union)

https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting

Explore Earth and space sciences research, connect with global experts and emerging leaders along with thousands of scientists, educators and policymakers under this year's theme, “Where Science Connects Us”. Workshops, panel discussions, and hands-on learning experiences are available along with mentoring programs, career fairs, and funding opportunities. New Orleans, LA. December 15-19, 2025.

AIAA SciTech Forum 2026

https://scitech.aiaa.org/

Billed as the world’s largest event for aerospace R&D, AIAA SciTech Forum's 2025 theme is “Breaking Barriers Together: Boundless Discovery”. Speakers include Jonathan W. Arenberg of Northrop Grumman and Craig Martell of Lockheed Martin. Orlando, FL. January 12-16, 2026.

Space Debris Conference 2026

https://ssa.gov.sa/sdc26/

SDC2026 invites international stakeholders facing the escalating threat of space debris to in-depth keynotes, live demonstrations and collaborations on issues and long-term solutions for a safer orbital environment. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. January 26-27, 2026.

2026 SmallSat Symposium

https://smallsatshow.com/

This year’s intensive three-day forum features deep technical briefs and insights into new missions, behind-the-scenes market analysis, and the latest breakthroughs in smallsat technology, services and applications. $200-$1,395. Silicon Valley, CA. February 10-11, 2026.

ASCENDxTexas 2026

https://www.ascend.events/ascendx/ascendxtexas-2026/

2026 ASCENDxTexas opens under the theme, “Interlocking Orbits—Civilian, Commercial, and Defense,” with a focus on the innovation and adaptation necessary to navigate the evolving space economy. Join discussions on policy, commercial challenges, and changing timelines. $199-$449. Houston, TX. February 25-26, 2026.

47th IEEE Aerospace Conference

https://www.aeroconf.org/

The International IEEE Conference promotes interdisciplinary understanding through presentations and plenary sessions around science and technology, and government and commercial applications. $125-$2300. Big Sky, MT. March 7-14, 2026.

Munich Space Summit

https://www.munich-space-summit.org/

The Munich New Space Summit and Munich Satellite Navigation Summit merge this year into a 5-day forum for space sector innovation to build bridges between established expertise and emerging ideas, and enable future collaborations and applications. Munich, Germany. March 23-27, 2026.

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge: Phase 2

https://lunarecycle.competitionsciences.org/

This phase of the $3 million competition is open only to U.S. teams and focuses on the development of required Prototype Solutions and optional Digital Twin Solutions of the prototype to transform trash items into useful feedstocks and/or end products on the surface of the Moon and Mars. Winners are expected to be announced in August 2026. Registration closes January 22, 2026.

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Castelion Closes $350 Million Series B to Mass Produce U.S. Hypersonic Weapons

https://www.castelion.com/news/series-b/

Defense technology company Castelion raised $350 million in a Series B round led by Altimeter Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Lavrock Ventures, First In, Space VC and others. Castelion aims to advance a top Pentagon modernization priority, hypersonic munitions production at scale. Capital will be used for building production facility Project Ranger and integrating hypersonic weapon Blackbeard with US Army and Navy operational platforms for testing in 2026.

K2 Space Raises $250M at $3B Valuation to Roll Out a New Class of High-Capability Satellites

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/k2-space-raises-250m-at-3b-valuation-to-roll-out-a-new-class-of-high-capability-satellites-302638936.html

High-power satellite platform developer K2 Space announced a $250 million Series C round at a $3 billion valuation led by Redpoint, with participation from Altimeter, Lightspeed, Hedosophia, Alpine Space Ventures and T. Rowe Price. The funding accelerates delivery of their larger, higher power satellites that can be deployed in any orbit.

ICEYE SAR satellite. Image Credits: Defensie Nederland

ICEYE and General Catalyst partner to redefine space-based intelligence in Europe

https://www.iceye.com/newsroom/press-releases/iceye-and-general-catalyst-partner-to-redefine-space-based-intelligence-in-europe

SAR satellite systems manufacturer ICEYE secured €150 million in Series E funding and a €50 million secondary placement led by General Catalyst, with participation from A.P. Moller, Bpifrance, Vinci (BGK Group), RiO Family Office, and others. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s delivery of sovereign satellite systems and data intelligence services.

Microreactor startup Antares raises $96M for land, sea, and space-based nuclear power

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/microreactor-startup-antares-raises-96m-for-land-sea-and-space-based-nuclear-power/

Nuclear startup Antares raised $96 million in Series B funding led by Shine Capital with participation from Alt Capital, Caffeinated, FiftyThree Stations, Industrious, and others to further its R1 modular microreactor design for commercial, defense, and space-based applications.

AnySignal Wins $24M Series A to Transform Mission-Critical Space and National Security Infrastructure

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anysignal-wins-24m-series-a-to-transform-mission-critical-space-and-national-security-infrastructure-302635913.html

Wireless platform AnySignal announced a $24 million Series A round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from BlueYard Capital, First In Ventures and others, to scale production of its space communications platform, expand its national security products, and build a new facility in the Los Angeles area. The round is key to the company’s goal of becoming the global leader in mission-critical space and national security infrastructure.

Applied Aerospace and PCX Aerosystems Merge to Scale Aerospace Manufacturing Capabilities 

https://www.satellitetoday.com/manufacturing/2025/12/03/applied-aerospace-and-pcx-aerosystems-merge-to-scale-aerospace-manufacturing-capabilities/

Aerospace suppliers Applied Aerospace and PCX Aerosystems are merging to form Applied Aerospace & Defense to support demand for precision hardware and systems for aircraft, satellites, launch vehicles and missile defense. Both companies are privately held by Greenbriar Equity Group, and the combined company will have more than $500 million in annual revenue.

Overview Energy Emerges From Stealth

https://payloadspace.com/overview-energy-emerges-from-stealth/

Virginia-based Overview Energy emerged from stealth announcing a milestone towards beaming solar power to Earth and making solar power a more reliable energy source. Previous funding totaling $20 million is going towards building a fleet of satellites designed to collect solar power and use low-intensity, near-infrared light to deliver it to existing solar energy installations on Earth. 

Moonshot Space Raises $12M for Electromagnetic Launch

https://payloadspace.com/moonshot-space-raises-12m-for-electromagnetic-launch/

Israeli startup Moonshot Space emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding to continue development of a launch system powered by electromagnetism and capable of reaching Mach 6, to capitalize on demand for hypersonic test capabilities. Moonshot plans to sell the technology as a hypersonic test platform, while planning to offer orbital launch services in the future.

Leanspace raises €10 million Series A round to bring software-defined satellite operations to enterprise and institutional space programs

https://leanspace.io/blog/leanspace-raises-e10-million-series-a-round-to-bring-software-defined-satellite-operations-to-enterprise-and-institutional-space-programs/

European satellite operations technology provider Leanspace raised €10 million in Series A funding led by ISAI Cap Venture, Capgemini’s corporate venture arm, and US-based Qwaltec, alongside 42CAP, Karista and Arnaud Guérin, among others. The financing will go towards accelerating the move to software-defined satellite operations across European and North American markets.

Fortastra Lands $8M Seed to Develop Orbital Defense Sats

https://payloadspace.com/fortastra-lands-8m-seed-to-develop-orbital-defense-sats/

California startup Fortastra announced an $8 million seed round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Generational Partners, Forward Deployed Venture Capital, Bloomberg Beta and Wave Function Ventures. The funding will support development of spacecraft that provide physical security to government and commercial satellites.

Reditus readies for space after raising $7.1 million

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/03/reditus-space-seed-venture-hypersonics

Atlanta-based Reditus Space raised $7.1 million led by Y Combinator, Antler and others to accelerate development of its first full-scale reusable microgravity research spacecraft demonstrator, ENOS, for launch next summer on a SpaceX rideshare. Multiple pharmaceutical, biotech and advanced materials customers have booked payload slots.

Trusted Space Receives Strategic Growth Investment from Washington Harbour Partners

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trusted-space-receives-strategic-growth-investment-from-washington-harbour-partners-302633593.html

Washington Harbour Partners invested in Trusted Space, a provider of full life cycle space mission software engineering solutions for secure end-to-end space operations across battle management command & control (BMC2) autonomous operations, and battlespace awareness. Trusted Space aims to ensure resilient space warfighting capabilities on the ground and in orbit. 

Marble Imaging Raises New Funding Ahead of Satellite Launch Next Year

https://www.satellitetoday.com/finance/2025/12/01/marble-imaging-raises-new-funding-ahead-of-satellite-launch-next-year/

German big-data Earth Observation company Marble Imaging raised €5.3 million ($6.1 million) led by High-Tech Gründerfonds to build a constellation of very high resolution satellites that can provide up to hourly EO data and analytics to support rapid decision-making for defense, climate security, crises and disaster management, and other applications. The first Marble satellite is scheduled to launch late next year.

Odin Space secures $3m seed funding to advance lethal, non-trackable space debris detection technology

https://odin.space/article/odin-space-secures-3m-seed-funding-to-advance-lethal-non-trackable-space-debris-detection-technology

UK-based advanced space debris detection startup Odin Space announced a seed funding round of $3 million led by Steel Atlas, with participation from Iron Prairie, Tiny VC, Cur8 Capital and others, to develop its proprietary Nano Sensor technology for monitoring and tracking lethal, non-trackable space debris.

Blue Origin unveils space part made entirely by AI with the help of a little-known startup

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/istari-digital-ai-blue-origins-moon-dust-battery.html

Blue Origin unveiled a moon vacuum at Amazon’s re:Invent 2025 conference, a device created by AI from startup Istari Digital that extracts heat from moon dust as an energy source. This allows spacecraft to continue operations during the two-week lunar night that happens every 28 days.

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/after-years-of-resisting-it-spacex-now-plans-to-go-public-why/

Targeting a $1.5 trillion valuation, SpaceX is planning to raise in excess of $30 billion through an IPO in 2026, which would set the record for the largest IPO in history. Having long resisted going public, Elon Musk may have changed his stance to develop orbital data centers, initially by deploying modified Starlink satellites with the potential for eventually constructing satellite factories on the Moon. Polymarket currently shows a 66% chance of SpaceX's IPO closing market cap exceeding $1 trillion. 

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/nvidia-backed-starcloud-trains-first-ai-model-in-space-orbital-data-centers.html

Washington-based Starcloud, a startup backed by Nvidia, successfully trained and ran an AI model from orbit using an Nvidia H100 GPU aboard its Starcloud-1 satellite. The satellite ran Google’s open Gemma model and also trained a NanoGPT model, the first large language model to be trained in space. Starcloud aims to build much larger solar-powered orbital data centers that could eventually offer lower-cost, more sustainable compute capacity than Earth-based facilities.

5 key takeaways from Jared Isaacman's 2nd NASA chief nomination hearing

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/5-key-takeaways-from-jared-isaacmans-2nd-nasa-chief-nomination-hearing

Jared Isaacman’s second NASA administrator nomination hearing emphasized a pragmatic approach to space exploration. He reaffirmed support for the Artemis program, which he sees as the key to beating China to the Moon, and human exploration missions, while stressing the importance of fiscal discipline and measurable outcomes. Isaacman highlighted the growing role of commercial partnerships, arguing that NASA should focus on setting ambitious goals and standards.

New Results from the JWST Suggest that TRAPPIST-1e Might Have a Methane Atmosphere, Though Caution is Advised

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-results-from-the-jwst-suggest-that-trappist-1e-could-have-a-methane-atmosphere

James Webb Space Telescope observations indicate that TRAPPIST-1e may possess a methane-rich atmosphere, marking one of the first signs of a substantial atmosphere on a potentially habitable exoplanet. The presence of methane, especially alongside other gases, suggests potential biological activity, though non-biological processes are also possible. The research team’s latest paper suggests the tentative hint of an atmosphere may be 'noise' from the host star, and the need for more data.