Isar Aerospace’s second rocket launch reached orbit, demonstrating the company’s capability to provide independent launch services from Europe and positioning it as a key player in the growing commercial space market.
Polish startup Creotech Instruments secured a near‑€14 million contract with ESA to deliver the SAWA satellite, which will monitor space weather. The agreement covers the full mission lifecycle, marking a major milestone for the company in the European space sector.
HyImpulse, a European space‑technology startup, secured €50 million in new financing.
Space Cargo Unlimited announced a strategic investment in Novespace, the leading European provider of parabolic flight services and a subsidiary of France’s space agency CNES. The deal makes Space Cargo a shareholder alongside CNES, adding short‑duration microgravity access to its portfolio of autonomous space manufacturing platforms and strengthening its vision of an integrated fleet for research and commercial manufacturing in orbit.
Paris‑based startup ARCSPACE raised over €2 million to develop and flight‑qualify an electron‑beam technology that could enable repair of disposable satellites, opening a new market for on‑orbit servicing.
European spacetech scale‑up Iceye opened a new subsidiary in New Delhi, India, to provide advanced intelligence, surveillance and environmental monitoring services to Indian defence and intelligence agencies and to build local manufacturing capabilities.
SpaceAM, a Gloucestershire‑based aerospace and defence startup, raised an undisclosed Seed round backed by Foresight Group and UK Government funding. The capital will be used to expand its AI‑enabled ultra‑lightweight sensor systems for space, defence and security markets, and the company is gearing up for a future Series A round.
Nebex, a space‑trading platform founded in 2025, announced a €100 million initiative in France that will channel global space contracts back to French startups, guaranteeing a full industrial return on foreign spending. The move is backed by a $30 million seed round led by GV and supported by a dozen venture investors. The model aims to simplify cross‑border space procurement and boost the French space ecosystem without changing existing procurement laws.
Polish startup SatRev demonstrated the performance of its SN-10 BlueBON satellite by collecting over a million square kilometres of Earth imagery in just 16 months, amounting to about 450 GB of data, underscoring the reliability of its Raccoon platform.
Astrolight and ATMOS Space Cargo are developing a routine, commercial laser communication system that will enable data transfer from a spacecraft returning from orbit to a satellite, aiming for the first transmission in 2027.