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@SpaceX pushes for offshore launch capabilities
Hard Tech Headlines:
- @Exosat_ has launched out of Y Combinator as its first Asia-based space company, developing low-cost communications satellites for civil and commercial markets outside the U.S. and China, including telecom, maritime, energy, mining, logistics and satellite IoT.
- @flyarcher plans to acquire three Boeing subsidiaries: Wisk Aero, which develops autonomous eVTOL aircraft; SkyGrid, which develops air traffic management technology; and Insitu, which builds ISR drones.
- @Splash_Robotics, the LA-based unmanned surface vessel startup, completed an autonomous strike mission during a military exercise on the East Coast, with its Typhoon 11 navigating near-zero-depth waterways less than 15 feet wide to find and intercept a simulated enemy vessel.
- @SpaceX is deploying more than $16.8B into Terafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor manufacturing facility in Grimes County, Texas, expected to be the largest chip manufacturing facility ever built.
- @Raytheon completed a successful demonstration of its unmanned undersea vehicle during a U.S. Navy exercise. The UUV has 2,000+ nautical miles of endurance and is designed to cost roughly 67–80% less than comparable long-endurance UUVs, enabled in part by its carbon-fiber exoskeleton.
- @SpaceX is exploring offshore rocket launch capabilities off the U.S. coast.
- The Alabama Space Accelerator, the state’s first dedicated space accelerator, has launched in Huntsville. Developed by Treble One in partnership with the Apollo Coalition, its inaugural cohort begins in October.
- Jimmy Kan has launched a photonics startup in stealth. Kan is currently a partner at Anzu Partners.
- @RocketLab has announced a launch system packaged inside standard shipping containers, enabling orbital and suborbital launches around the globe using its Electron and HASTE rockets.
- Cambridge Aerospace has secured a $300M Series C led by DFJ Growth. The UK startup develops low-cost C-UAS interceptors.
- Blackstar, the Space Coast-based company building reusable orbital spacecraft, plans to go public via a SPAC merger with Pono Capital Four.
- @noxmetals, the Detroit-based metal supplier startup, has integrated three American-made precision saws into its operations, enabling it to get metal to manufacturers 10x faster than it could three months ago.
- Steve D. has joined @CX2_Industries as Head of Global Defense. CX2 develops critical electronic warfare capabilities across all domains. Steve was formerly Chief of Staff at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
- DP World, which handles roughly 10% of global container traffic, is building a new temperature-controlled logistics hub at the Port of Antwerp in Belgium, with long-term investment expected to exceed $100M.
- @epirus, the LA-based startup developing high-power microwave systems (shown below) to take down drone swarms and individual drones, has secured an $11M U.S. Marine Corps contract.
Video Source: Epirus
Pulsar’s Sunbird programme achieved first plasma in March 2026, demonstrating initial confinement and particle acceleration using krypton. Upcoming testing will add plasma diagnostics, superconducting magnets, RF and rotating magnetic-field heating, and thrust measurements. The programme aims to advance toward aneutronic fusion propulsion while studying neutron-induced damage to reactor walls and magnets with UKAEA.
Video Credit: @PulsarFusion
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