Deal count nearly halved while median check sizes doubled. The market isn't funding new ideas — it's fortifying proven ones.
Sep 18, 2026
Open Cosmos pulled its €300 million from pension funds and a UK national security fund — not a single Silicon Valley name on the cap table.
Sep 17, 2026
Sophia Space and Space Leasing International just showed space startups a path to capital that costs founders zero equity.
Sep 16, 2026
Blue Origin won NASA's Mars telecoms deal. Rocket Lab already has two spacecraft at the Earth-Sun L2 point — and says NASA broke the rules Congress itself wrote.
Sep 14, 2026
Fifteen alarmed executives published their warning Monday. By midweek, $450 million landed on one company. One of those signals is wrong.
Sep 12, 2026
That gap isn't random. It's the price of routing every contract through 23 approval chains.
Sep 11, 2026
Point72 and Spark Capital just co-led a $1 billion Series E into a rocket that hasn't left the pad. There's a case it's the right price.
Sep 10, 2026
Total funding is now $195 million. The buyers — NRO, NASA, India's defense ministry — tell you more than the dollar figure does.
Sep 9, 2026
Falcon 9 carries 23 times the payload at a fraction of the cost per kilo. So why did European governments fund Isar anyway? Because sovereignty isn't on SpaceX's manifest.
Sep 7, 2026
NVIDIA didn't back a pitch deck. It backed the only company that has already trained a language model in orbit — a first no competitor can claim.
Sep 5, 2026
Every prior Starship flight was suborbital — up, across, and back down. Satellites need orbit to function. September 15 is the first flight designed to drop cargo at a useful address.
Sep 4, 2026
Planet Labs closed last fiscal year with nearly a billion in signed future contracts. Tonight's earnings will show if the revenue is finally catching the backlog.
Sep 3, 2026
