Outpost’s Carryall is Big Enough for Multiple Contracts
Outpost won a $36M in recent contracts from the US military to develop its technology for hypersonic testing, reentry missions, and on orbit cargo storage.
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Outpost won a $36M in recent contracts from the US military to develop its technology for hypersonic testing, reentry missions, and on orbit cargo storage.
Auriga Space wants to take the rocket science out of launch. Their eventual goal is to provide rapid launch capabilities using tech more akin to high speed maglev trains than rocket engines.
“We’re going to mine asteroids or go f*****g bankrupt.”
The two contracts are vital to the US military’s mission of greater resilience in space. But they also help fund TrustPoint’s commercial ambitions.
NASA and CSA joined together to address this problem with The Deep Space Food Challenge, a competition that’s tapped industry to put forward novel ideas and new technologies to keep astronauts fed on extended journeys to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
The company recorded high Q2 2024 revenue, and looks forward to breaking into the national security space sector.
The size of this year’s conference meant that the press wires were a fire hose of companies unveiling innovative technologies, new partnerships, and additional funding streams.
Benchmark Space Systems added Starlight’s Hall-effect thrusters (HET) and 21SoftWare’s security platform to its partner network.
Perceptive Space, a startup developing a a space-weather forecasting platform, closed a $3.9M CAD ($2.8M USD) pre-seed funding round as it emerged from stealth.
Ascending Node Technologies (ANT) launched its Spaceline 3D mission visualization software to help mission operators plan and optimize their flight paths.
With just seven months to launch, the LA-based asteroid mining company decided to toss out its mission 2 vehicle, named Odin, and build a new bus in house mostly from scratch.
Sierra Space just blew up its most advanced space station technology to date. The explosion was an overwhelming success.