NASA has ordered a tenth private Moon landing, awarding Intuitive Machines $116.9M to deliver six scientific payloads to the lunar South Pole. The Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission will be Intuitive’s fourth trip to the Moon.
Portfolio companies ICEYE and Delos are listed in Insurtech 50 is CB Insights’ annual list of the 50 most promising private insurtech companies in the world. This year’s winners are working on everything from AI assistants to embedded insurance.
General Dynamics Mission Systems, a unit of defense contractor General Dynamics, has been awarded a $491 million contract extension by the Space Development Agency for satellite ground systems, the Pentagon announced Aug. 30.
KBR, a global engineering and services firm, earlier this week closed a $737 million acquisition of LinQuest, a defense and space support services contractor with a large number of cleared workers and secure facilities.
Starlink, the satellite internet service owned and operated by SpaceX, said it will block social network X in Brazil to continue operations there without the threat of losing its license.
