Weekly Recap #45 + VXB Aerospace Interview

This week we interviewed Alexander Ryan, Co-Founder and CEO of VXB Aerospace, following their $4M raise! Listen to an excerpt in the podcast, and subscribe to be notified when our full coverage drops later this week.

Main Topics

Communications

* Spain committed $2.3B to building national military communication satellites to contribute to Europe’s IRIS2 constellation. [source]

* SpaceX won $1.6B in launch orders from National Security Space Launch (NSSL) for 18 Falcon-9 launches of Airborne Mobile Target Indicator (AMTI) satellites. [source]

* The FCC planned an upper C-band auction for next year, selling 160MHz from 3.98-4.14GHz to SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat. [source]

* Amazon filed for 5,105 Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellites using Globalstars L-band spectrum in combination with their S-band spectrum. [source]

* Sphinx Defense won $287M for strategic communications software. [source]

Propulsion

* Spinlaunch rebranded to Meridian Space pivoting from launch to communication constellations. [source]

* USSF awarded All Points $250M to expand commercial satellite processing at Vandenberg launch base. [source]

* Rocket Lab won $266M from the USSF 12-18 HASTE launches out of their new Kodiak launch site. [source]