Defence is Europe’s fastest-growing tech sector, with startups making drones and software for armies among those to have raised over €3.5bn between them so far this year. The sector is also Europe’s third-best funded overall so far in 2025, behind data centres and AI agents.
A release from AST SpaceMobile shared that BlueBird 6 has completed final assembly and testing and is ready for flight. On October 12, BlueBird 7 will head to India aboard an Antonov large cargo plane.
HawkEye 360’s GNSS-I Detection suite includes powerful enhancements to its GNSS interference detection capabilities. The upgrades — designed with defense, intelligence and national security operations in mind — offer unprecedented accuracy, coverage and insight into global GPS jamming and spoofing threats.
Soracom geared up for a full launch of a hybrid satellite and cellular IoT system for users in Europe, North and Latin America using Skylo Technologies geostationary Earth orbit birds.
After a sluggish stretch that left satellite valuations near all-time lows at the end of 2024, investors at World Space Business Week in Paris portrayed a sector rebounding with renewed strength, as signs of maturity bolster valuations and attract deeper pools of capital.
Space investment firm Seraphim is tracking rapid growth in the in-space economy, more focused investment for satellite analytics, and larger funding rounds going to more companies.
