Investors: Riot Ventures
True Anomaly, a Colorado aerospace startup building space defense drones and interceptors for satellite swarms, raises $600M in Series D funding to fuel Jackal spacecraft production and rapid-launch capabilities.
Investors: Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared The Private Shares Fund, VanEck
True Anomaly raised $650M Series D for space defense and autonomous spacecraft development, including space-based interceptor technology and missile defense systems.
Investors: Riot Ventures, Eclipse
Space defense company building flexible space drones and interceptors for missile defense raised $600M Series D, reaching $1.1B total funding.
Investors: Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, The Private Shares Fund, VanEck, Accel, Menlo Ventures, ACME Capital, Space VC, Meritech Capital, Narya, 645 Ventures
True Anomaly, a defense space startup developing autonomous spacecraft and space interceptors, raised $650 million Series D to scale satellite business and support military contracts for space-based interceptor technology.
Space Force awards $3.2B for orbital kill vehicles by 2028
The U.S. Space Force distributed 20 contracts worth up to $3.2 billion across 12 companies to build space-based missile interceptors in low-Earth orbit, aiming for operational capability within two years.
SpaceX rideshare hits 54 flights as New Glenn stays grounded
SpaceX launched its third rideshare of 2026, deploying 45 payloads including a South Korean Earth observation satellite delayed four years by Russia's invasion. The cadence gap with Blue Origin widens.
Space domain awareness and orbital security company building spacecraft and software for military space superiority missions.
Space domain awareness and orbital security startup developing inspection spacecraft and software for the USSF.
Space security startup developing autonomous spacecraft and software for orbital domain awareness and defense missions.
Space domain awareness and orbital security company building spacecraft and software for national defense.
Space domain awareness and orbital security company developing spacecraft for proximity operations and threat response.