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CesiumAstro Raises $270M Series C

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By Rachael Zisk Verified
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2026 has started off strong with large funding rounds—and things aren’t slowing down as we head into the second month of the year. Yesterday, spacecom company CesiumAstro announced that it closed a $270M round of funding—which will help the company to cement further contracts in the defense sector, and build out its natsec business.
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Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus On the Moon

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If you were waiting for your chance to spend ten minutes suspended in microgravity at the edge of space aboard one of Blue Origin’s tourist vessels, well, you’re just going to have to wait a little longer. After 38 launches, including a mix of science payloads and 17 crewed flights, Blue announced Friday that it’s taking a step back from space tourism aboard New Shepard. Instead, the company will focus on its lunar program.
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SDA Needs Better Planning, GAO Says

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The GAO’s watchful eye has fallen upon the SDA. In a report released this week, the watchdog agency was unimpressed with the SDA’s planning for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). For the uninitiated, the PWSA is the SDA’s flagship missile-tracking constellation design that is projected to cost the agency ~$35B through 2029.
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