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• Mike Wall
Impulse Space—founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX’s first employee—has raised $500 million to develop its “ultra-mobile” spacecraft fleet, positioning the company’s architecture as a platform meant to reshape how the space economy is built and scaled.
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• Jeff Foust
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• Leonard David
By SpaceNews.com: BOULDER, Colorado — Researchers are calling for increased attention and better protection against the rising introduction of exotic materials into Earth’s atmosphere from satellite and space hardware re-entry, especially in an era of megaconstellations.
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• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Voyager Technologies will acquire Astrobotic, a company developing lunar landers and reusable suborbital vehicles, in a deal worth up to $300 million.
SpaceWatch Global
• Guest Author
By SpaceWatch Global: A month after Luxembourg Space Resources Week 2026, the strongest takeaway remains a shift from ambition to implementation across the global space resources sector.
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• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA is withdrawing a proposal to revamp its strategy for transitioning from the International Space Station to commercial stations.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Venturi Space has announced a €250 million investment in France aimed at establishing a new 16,000 sq m technology center in Toulouse.
techfundingnews.com
• Abhinaya Prabhu
By techfundingnews.com: PLD Space is committing €35 million to build its launch complex at Europe’s only operational spaceport, becoming the first private operator to deploy capital at this scale at the ELM-Diamant site in French Guiana.
European Spaceflight
Bloomberg
• Sana Pashankar
By Bloomberg: Vast Space, founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, will establish a European headquarters in Paris and send French astronauts on two crewed missions to space, the company announced Monday.
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