Weekly Recap #57 - Rocket Powered Doordash

Main TopicsSpace Responsivity* Eradrive won a $13M US DoD APFIT contract to provide vision based autonomy nodes to the USSF [source]* Orbital Operations wins up to $35M from the US DoD for their Astraeus cryogenic maneuverable spacecraft, and closes $7M seed extension led by DTX Ventures. [source]* Infinite Orbits raised $58M from the European Innovation Council and booked 4 Impulse Space OTV flights for their Endurance GEO servicing satellites. [source]* Momentus awarded a NASA task order to formulate a mission for Fly Foundational Robotics resupply. [source]* Space Robot raised $15M to deploy a constellation of servicing satellites. [source]* Sinxbot raised tens of millions to develop robotic arms for satellite servicing. [source]New Capabilities* SpaceX’s Bandwagon 5 launched:* SES & Planet’s Pelican-12 tested data relays for NASA Communications Service project. [source]* Rocket Lab’s Maxwell satellite manufactured for Viasat to demonstrate NASA Communications Service project. [source]* Varda’s W-7 to manufacture cancer pharmaceuticals with improved solubility. [source]* SpaceX Starfall to test rapid delivery of military equipment for AFRL. [source]* First 6 Xona Pulsars for an alternative to GPS. [source]* Samara won a $1.3M NASA contract to demonstrate attitude control technology in a lab setting. [source]* Warpware closed a $1.2M pre-seed round to develop an AI engineering platform for space software. [source]* AstraQua was awarded a $1.27M Phase II contract from NASA for autonomous machine health intelligence. [source]* OHB awarded a feasibility study for ESA’s OASIS program to develop lunar infrastructure. [source]Defense* Space Force selected six companies for their SDA Commercial Reserve Fleet: Anduril, Intrack, Slingshot, LeoLabs, EOS, and Northstar. [source]* SSC launched ACES for commercial access to classified space programs. [source]* SDA released a Request for Information for Tranche 4 missile-tracking of PWSA. [source]Business Moves* Xona <