Quadsat has earned ISO 9001 certification, a significant milestone reflecting the maturity of their operations and commitment to quality across their defense-focused portfolio.

Optera raises £3M to establish their UK headquarters and scale space domain awareness capabilities!

CTO, Araz Feyzi, featured on the NYSE.

Archangel Lightworks has successfully demonstrated data transfer between TERRA-M, the deployable Optical Ground Station, and a satellite in Low Earth Orbit.

“World’s smallest deployable operational optical ground station proves capability in successful trials.”

Slingshot Aerospace will deliver 13 advanced optical sensors across five global sites. These systems build on the same sensing technology used within the Slingshot Global Sensor Network, helping enable persistent, reliable monitoring of activity across the space domain.

Following the successful launch of Acadia-10 Capella Space is celebrating alongside IonQ with first-light imagery of IonQ offices around the world.

Acadia-10 represents a major step forward in reducing SAR data latency, helping deliver Earth intelligence faster to the people who need it most.

During Arcane Thunder, Origami Space deployed and demonstrated next-generation capabilities in support of MDC-E operations.

Backswing Ventures, the defense venture capital firm, announced the successful close of a $3 million Seed financing round, in partnership and support of Orion Edge.

QuSecure was included as a case study in the World Economic Forum’s quantum technologies report.

Spectronn is collaborating with Verizon to advance 5G solutions for community disaster resilience.

In a space launch mission known as USSF-23 (2027), the Space Force will deploy a fuel-transfer spacecraft built by Astroscale U.S., a propellant depot developed by Orbit Fab and a servicing "space tug" from Starfish Space.

Tempest Droneworx named one of Founder Institute’s Fastest Growing Companies 2026.

Dcubed teamed up with Intuitive Machines to power a cornerstone of the lunar infrastructure of the future.

RS21 opened the doors to their new headquarters in the Portland Building in the Winrock development in Albuquerque.

Slingshot Aerospace Launches ‘Portal,’ an AI-Driven Platform for Mission-Ready Space Operations

PSIONIC and iMETALX Announce Strategic Collaboration Supporting RPOD, Space Control, and Space Battle Management for U.S. Space Force and SDA Missions

Katalyst Space Technologies will launch a geosynchronous orbit servicing spacecraft on an Ariane 6 in 2027.

Kayhan Space is branching out from providing orbital intelligence used to coordinate satellite fleets with a new software platform that turns that data into business insights for investors and insurers.

Caliola’s CEO, Jennifer Halford, was honored on Inc’s 2026 Female Founders 500, a list of the most creative and inspiring female leaders in America!

Slingshot Aerospace Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026

IonQ Completes Acquisition of Skyloom, Expanding Quantum Networking and Secure Communications Capabilities

Starfish Space executed Remora, their first closed-loop rendezvous mission, in orbit. The entire operation relied on a single camera sensor and peripheral flight computer, an industry first. TRL11 provided the equipment that made this amazing moment possible.

Dcubed has been selected by Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin Company, to deliver five body-mounted solar array panels for their lunar rover, launching aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 3 lander in 2028. This rover will explore the Gruithuisen Domes — a mysterious, never-before-visited region of the Moon — carrying instruments that could reshape our understanding of lunar geology.

Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C.-based space technology startup, is adapting navigation software originally developed by NASA for military use under a U.S. Space Force contract, targeting a long-standing vulnerability in satellite operations: reliance on GPS.

Quadsat is proud and honored to take home the prestigious EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the category - Best Tech Company. Last Friday, the Quadsat team gathered at Bella Center near Copenhagen to take part in the national celebration of Denmark’s most accomplished growth creators at the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 finals.

SpaceWERX, in partnership with Hyperspace Challenge and supporting Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI), is looking forward to exploring pathways to transition with the 10 SBIR Phase II companies selected for the 2025 Hyperspace Challenge cohort, developing solutions in: Data Processing and Integration, Pattern of Life (PoL) Characterization & Analysis, & Digital Twins

Acuity Innovations LLC Named a Colorado Springs Gazette Best Workplace—for the Second Year in a Row!

The roadmap lays out a plan for the UK to lead in ultra-secure, high-capacity space links. It focuses on setting global standards, building a UK optical comms supply chain, making networks more connected and hybrid (optical + RF) and boosting resilience for defence and critical infrastructure. We’re proud to be featured as part of this vision and to be helping shape the next generation of optical connectivity. Thank you techUK for the opportunity to contribute!

QuSecure is very excited that our QuProtect platform has been named by InfoWorld as the winner of its Technology of the Year Awards in the Data Management: Security category.

announced the successful hotfire of their 22-Newton Macaw ASCENT thruster at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Edwards AFB, featuring the 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙’𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 high-throughput demonstration of an operational-scale ASCENT thruster. This milestone represents years of AFRL investment and collaboration, and reinforces ASCENT as a real, near-term mobility solution for both commercial and national security missions.

Cambrian Works Announces Partnership with Aptos Orbital to Integrate the GigRouter and Aptos Terminal.

Dcubed Chosen to Provide Solar Array for Intuitive Machines’ First Space Data Network Satellite.

Vermeer, the US-Ukrainian Startup Making Drones Immune to Russian EW, Lands $10M from Draper Associates. The investment, led by the VCs behind SpaceX and Tesla, will scale the Kyiv-tested Visual Positioning System (VPS) already deployed by the U.S. Army and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Space debris is damaging satellites, putting astronaut lives at risk and threatening everything from banking and research to basic connectivity back on Earth. Orbit Fab CEO Daniel Faber shares how a ‘gas station’ in space can help on an episode of Meet the Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Orion Edge Group Inc. has been selected at Association of the United States Army - AUSA 2025 as one of the winners of the Army xTech Disrupt competition!

FLEXELL SPACE and Dcubed have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore future collaboration in space power and deployable technologies. This partnership combines Flexell Space’s ultra-light, cost-efficient solar cells ⚡️ (90% lighter, 60% cheaper, and more radiation-resistant) with Dcubed’s proven deployable solar array systems 🛰 — paving the way for a new generation of scalable, sustainable power solutions for satellites.

On July 24, 2025, a unique international partnership of SaraniaSat, NV5 Geospatial Software, BruhnBruhn Innovation (BBI), Netnod, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) achieved something unprecedented: a true demonstration of cloud-native computing onboard the International Space Station (ISS)

Starris and TRL11 have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver innovative, intelligent full-motion video payloads capable of performing electro-optical Rendezvous Proximity Operations (RPO) tasking plus a dual-use capability of Space Domain Awareness.

Data Squared Closes $6.25M Round led by Full In Partners!

NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies a $30 million contract to mount a first-of-its-kind rescue. Katalyst will launch a robotic servicer designed to autonomously approach, capture, and reposition the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into a more stable orbit.

Slingshot Aerospace, in collaboration with Scout Space, has been awarded a NASA SBIR Phase I contract to advance autonomous Space Traffic Management (STM) capabilities.

DARPA has selected Origami Space’s deployable antenna technology as awardable in the Expedited Research Implementation Series (ERIS) program, making it eligible for direct award and rapid transition into defense and space applications.

Inc. 5000 is Inc. Magazine's annual ranking of America’s fastest-growing private companies, based on percentage revenue growth over the last three years. Millennial Software ranks #1194 with 363% three-year growth, and is also #16 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 Regionals: Mid-Atlantic.

Precursor SPC has been awarded the Day of Launch Space Weather Nowcasting for Assured Access to Space, Mission Assurance and Launch Support by the Office of Space Launch. Precursor will be utilizing our operational Space Weather Nowcasting (SWN) platform for Ionosphere sensing and real-time Space Weather monitoring.

“Metrea is honored to receive the Concours d'Elegance, Best Civilian Aircraft award at The Royal International Air Tattoo 2025.”

NASA has awarded Origami Space a Phase II SBIR contract to advance their Folding Origami Inspired LiDAR Aperture technology. Origami is teaming up with researchers to replace massive traditional optical mirrors and lenses with an array of millimeter thick meta-lenses.

Coming soon alert- Spin Drift in Partnership with Orion Edge will be delivering first off the line LPI/ LPD jamming on group 1-5 drone platforms. Fully autonomous Navigation and Jamming.

Coming soon alert- Spin Drift in Partnership with Orion Edge will be delivering first off the line LPI/ LPD jamming on group 1-5 drone platforms. Fully autonomous Navigation and Jamming.

Axellio Assessed "Awardable" for Department of Defense work in the CDAO's Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

Congratulations to 2025 Colorado Companies To Watch Winner, Acuity Innovations LLC. Acuity is a small, woman-owned defense contracting company that provides enterprise architecture, solution design, digital engineering, and more products and services that improve performance and decrease decision timelines.

ATLAS Space Operations (ATLAS), the leading provider of Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS) for satellite communications, announced today York Space Systems’ (York) parent company has agreed to acquire ATLAS, marking a major milestone and successful exit for its investors and founders.

Capella announced that they were acquired by IonQ to "accelerate innovation in space-based quantum networking and unlock new possibilities for security, sensing, and global intelligence."

KMI became the first private company to capture objects repeatedly in space, the first commercial entity to capture an unprepared object in space, and the third to execute an uncontrolled capture worldwide.

The Team was over the moon to welcome General Stephen Whiting and Darren Whiteley from U.S. Space Command and Major General Gregory Novak from Space Command AU to Silentium Defence!

Congratulations to CEO and co-founder, Rebecca Krauthamer as she leads the way to a quantum-secure future. She was honored for all of her milestones in helping customers achieve cryptoagility by Inc. Magazine in its Female Founders 500 list right after we closed our $20M Series A. She was recognized as a visionary redefining cybersecurity for the quantum era - which is now.

In their first year, Origami Space has secured over $1 million in contracts, validated their core technologies, and set sights on a 2026 flight demo!

Precursor SPC has been awarded the Space Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) Challenge by the SSC/SN Space Sensing Directorate of the US Space Force.

Congratulations to Kayhan Space for being a finalist in the 2025 Colorado Companies to Watch.

The Oasis Foundation is pleased to announce a grant to Diode, the only open and permissionless Zero Trust Network in Web3, to integrate confidential smart contracts on Sapphire into its communications stack. This collaboration will bring privacy-preserving computation to one of the most promising decentralized network architectures, expanding Sapphire’s reach into secure messaging, tunneling, and device access.

Katalyst Space, an Arizona-based startup, partnered with the European startup LMO Space to demonstrate a technique for spacecraft docking known as “assisted rendezvous and proximity operations” (RPO). Under the partnership, the companies plan to demonstrate the concept in geostationary Earth orbit in 2026.

We recognize Katalyst Space Technologies for being selected by SpaceWERX for 24.3C Direct to Phase 2 SBIR - SF243-D013 titled "CCDM (Camouflage, Concealment, Deception, and Maneuver) Interrogation"! Katalyst Space Technologies has also officially acquired Atomos Space — a major step toward scaling our in-space servicing capabilities across commercial and defense sectors.By joining forces, we’re integrating Atomos’ flight-proven spacecraft and robotics with Katalyst’s advanced SDA, mission

Katalyst Space, an Arizona-based startup, partnered with the European startup LMO Space to demonstrate a technique for spacecraft docking known as “assisted rendezvous and proximity operations” (RPO). Under the partnership, the companies plan to demonstrate the concept in geostationary Earth orbit in 2026.

We’re proud to be featured in Ansys’ latest magazine, highlighting our pioneering efforts to establish the first commercial spacecraft refueling service—our “Gas Stations in Space™.” This milestone brings us closer to a sustainable and efficient space economy.

Acuity Innovations been recognized as one of The Gazette’s Best Workplaces - 2024!

Kayhan Space Launches Satcat Product Suite, the Industry's First Unified Space Intelligence and Operations Platform

QuSecure’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Solution Featured in Inaugural World Economic Forum Quantum Application Hub Debut at Davos 2025

Slingshot’s Agatha has been named Via Satellite’s Satellite Technology of the Year! Agatha is the first-of-its-kind AI application designed to analyze data from thousands of satellites in real time, detecting anomalies and identifying potential threats in space.

Cyberspatial Inc. announces it has been selected by AFWERXfor a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to conduct research related to mapping and discovery of Mission Relevant Terrain in Cyberspace (MRT-C) across Department of the Air Force (DAF) networks.

krtkl has been awarded a follow-on contract under the USArmy Research Laboratory’s xTechSBIR Autonomy initiative.

data² announced their participation as Innovation Collaborative Partners in support of ManTech's award of the $1.4 billion task order for Interagency Intelligence and Cyber Operations Network (ICON).

RS21’s expanded their predictive maintenance technology—originally built for the space industry—to revolutionize even more industries.

QuSecure announced that they successfully completed a collaborative project with Accenture Security and Banco Sabadell (one of the largest banks in Spain) to help the bank move towards quantum resilience.

Caliola was recognized as a Technology Fast 500 2024 Recipient award winner by Deloitte. Specifically, Caliola was identified as the top company in the communications and networking sector, and the top company in the State of Colorado!

Slingshot announced that they were awarded a $13.3 million contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) to build the TraCSS user interface.