Starcloud closes $250m Series A extension at $2.3bn valuation to scale AI on orbital data centers
ODC pioneer secures nearly half a billion dollars of investment to prove out space computing
News - The Investment & Markets Channel, Laurence Russell
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Eutelsat releases 2025-26 financial results, with 69.5% increase in LEO revenues YoY
Legacy European satellite operator continues navigating GEO & broadcast decline through LEO market, IRIS² leadership
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York Space completes $300m acquisition of All.Space, seeks to address unmanned connectivity gap
After acquiring Orbion and Solestial earlier in 2026, York is on a buying spree to verticalize a mission-critical package of space defense technologies
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Launcher Rocket Lab acquires satellite operator Iridium in $8bn deal
New vertical launch operator will build competitor to SpaceX's Falcon 9
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Comtech to sell most of its satcoms segment to Gilat for $157.5m, and pivot to public safety
Legacy satellite tech company bought by the firm it failed to acquire six years ago
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California startup Orbital joins space data center craze with $5m pre-seed
Company aims to send Nvidia Blackwell chip into orbit next year, has hopes for 10GW deployment
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NewOrbit raises $18.5m to build a satellite to survive VLEO for up to 5 years
UK startup building satellite to sustain 200-300 km elevation solely through AURA
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Satellite firm Aetherflux rebrands to Cowboy Space Corporation, raises $275m Series B
Robinhood luminary pursues vertical orbital data center/rocket empire, quintuples its Series-A
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Univity raises $31 million for 5G satellite demonstrators
French state-backed Series-A strengthens VLEO 5G demonstrator, hoping to enable Euro sovereignty
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Archangel Lightworks secures $13.57m in Series A funding to scale optical downstream technology
Deployable optical terminal technology to scale manufacturing in Oxford
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Sateliot launches €116 million public/private Series C to fund its constellation deployment
Catalan LEO contender seeks match funding from state on dual-use sovereign IoT tech
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SLI Aerospace buy two small geosynchronous satellites from ReOrbit for $172m
Leasing giant’s aerospace arm buys into small GEO trend
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Eutelsat completes its re-financing plan, closing €1.5bn bond offering
Funding to support LEO growth
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OQ Technology lands $29.5m financing to build, launch 20+ satellites in 2 years
Europe deploys capital on C- and S-band D2D as US developers enjoy head start on the technology
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Space Leasing International buys two AscendArc GEO satellites for $200m+
SLI moves on from leasing ground stations to leasing back satellites
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WISeKey satellite subsidiary WISeSat.Space poised for SPAC merger and public listing
SPACs in space: $250m entity hopes to innovate with post-quantum secure satellite IoT solution
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Telesat invests $5m in Farcast to develop integrated Lightspeed satellite terminal
Secures flat-panel terminal capability for enterprise and government LEO network
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX explores acquisition of Globalstar - report
Satellite firm looks to buy Apple-backed operator
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Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales to form new European space giant
Europe plans new conglomerated aerospace manufacturing giant to compete globally
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4iG weighs $100m investment into Axiom Space as part of orbital data center plan
Hungary telco eager to be on the ground floor of orbital data centers
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SWISSto12 snaps up assets and IP from liquidating Hanwha Phasor
Swiss group seeks to adopt British-Korean engineering insights to empower disruptive additive-manufactured antenna aspirations
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Univity secures €44m for strategic French VLEO 5G constellation
Public/private investment in French satellite broadband
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Ovzon signs refinancing agreement with Danske Bank
Ovzon seeks to refinance amid swelling European defense budgets
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Kinetic launch startup SpinLaunch announces $30m for LEO broadband constellation
Specialized constellation built for kinetic launch could challenge the hegemony of rocket insertion for satellites
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EDGX sees €2.3m seed round for satellite Edge AI compute technology
Satellite AI vital for remote sensing and imaging already purchased by unnamed operator for €1.1m
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Cascade Space reveals $5.9m seed funding for its space communications portal
Y-Combinator-backed comms startup intends to support Lunar and deep space in future
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Lynk Global mutually ends relationship with Slam Corp, terminates plans for SPAC merger
With threats of litigation resolved, it should be back to business as usual for the embittered businesses
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19-year-old entrepreneur raises $4.3m for LEO connectivity satellite network
Y-Combinator-backed Apolink seeks to eliminate LEO downtime with inter-satellite communication satellites