Space

For decades, nickel-hydrogen batteries have been the quiet workhorses of space, powering the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope through the extremes of orbit. Now, a California startup wants to put that same chemistry to work on the ground, and it just secured serious money to do it. EnerVenue has raised $300 million […]

The Redmond, Washington startup, which already has an Nvidia H100 GPU operating in orbit and has trained the first AI model in space, is now building a Starship-class spacecraft designed to be the first orbital data centre cost-competitive with terrestrial facilities. Starcloud has raised $170 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark and […]

The Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DARK system became the first hydrogen peroxide propulsion system flown in orbit in Europe, launching on a SpaceX mission in March 2025. Most of the satellites currently operating in orbit are kept in […]

The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionaries Club and Creandum led; Lombard Odier, Atlantic Labs, and Sistafund also participated. The satellite lifecycle has a structural inefficiency baked in. Launch vehicles deliver payloads […]

Spanish launch company PLD Space, headquartered in Elche, has secured €180 million in Series C funding to accelerate production of its orbital rocket systems and expand global launch operations. The round includes strategic participation from Mitsubishi Electric alongside public and private investors such as CDTI Innvierte, COFIDES, and Nazca Capital. The funding aims to support […]