Thinking of going back to school? Seraphim Space is taking applications. The space-focused venture capital firm today announced the launch of the Seraphim Academy, a new program for early-stage space startups offering courses in fundraising, scaling, and operations. The program comes with up to a year of support, and $150,000 of investment for each company that takes part.
Australian startup MP Space raised an AUD $23M ($16.1M) seed round to expand its satellite battery manufacturing capacity, and begin building other pieces of satellite power systems, the company announced on Monday. Blackbird VC led the round, which included additional participation from Seraphim Space, Systemiq Capital, Speedinvest, and MFV Partners.
LeoLabs announced more than $100 million in bookings across U.S. and Allied customers, doubling its bookings growth year over year. This growth builds on the company’s proven intelligence business, reflecting accelerating demand for the company’s next-generation radars in support of space superiority and missile defense.
AST SpaceMobile has confirmed its permission to operate over Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy. AST has secured S-band spectrum authorization from Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), as well as regulatory approval for the secondary use of spectrum in the 700 MHz band.
SpaceX and Rocket Lab missions bring the company’s constellation to 39 satellites as it expands a business model built around multiyear customer commitments.
Voyager Technologies executed a mission management contract with Interstellar Lab to host BioPod EDEN, the company’s autonomous plant growth payload, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Under the contract, Voyager Technologies will provide end-to-end payload hosting for the middeck locker-class payload, including design and safety review support across NASA’s review phases; engineering and technical support; assembly, integration and testing; concept of operations and on-orbit activities; and return of the payload to the customer.
Astroscale's UK subsidiary (Astroscale Ltd) has been awarded a £15 million contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) as prime contractor for Project LEDA, announced on 28 October 2026.
