Canada funds North America's only cobalt refinery with C$20M commitment
Electra Battery Materials secures definitive Canadian government funding for its Ontario cobalt sulfate refinery, completing a $48M tri-government capital stack and eliminating the continent's last critical minerals processing gap.
Reliable Robotics raises $160M to fly uncrewed cargo this summer
Reliable Robotics secured $160M in Series C funding to accelerate FAA certification and launch commercial autonomous cargo flights from Albuquerque this summer, with Boeing and RTX now backing the startup's dual-use civil and military strategy.
Germany, Ukraine scale autonomous strike drones to thousands annually
Auterion and Airlogix signed a production contract with Germany to manufacture thousands of AI-guided autonomous strike UAVs annually in Germany — the largest German heavy drone order to date, validating autonomy software already seeded into U.S. DoD programs.
ESA's Celeste IOD-1 Transmits Europe's First LEO Navigation Signal
ESA confirmed the first navigation signal from Celeste IOD-1 on April 8, a dual-frequency L- and S-band transmission from a 12U CubeSat that secures European spectrum rights before the May 2026 ITU deadline.