SpaceX launched lunar probes for Firefly Aerospace and Japan’s ispace destined for the lunar surface. Loft Orbital has raised $170 million in a Series C funding round. Slingshot Aerospace has been awarded $1.9 million from the USSF’s Space Systems Command to further develop the Company’s existing GPS jamming and spoofing detection, and more.

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Our guest today is Chad Anderson, Founder and Managing Partner at Space Capital.

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Selected Reading

Two lunar landers launch to the moon aboard a SpaceX rocket

Announcing Loft's $170M Series C

Slingshot Aerospace Selected to Provide Technology to USSF to Detect GPS Jamming and Spoofing Threats to International Security- Business Wire

Varda's Second Mission, W-2, Launches with Payloads from Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA

D-Orbit Launches Two Orbital Transportation Missions with ION Satellite Carrier 

ICEYE launches four new satellites, supporting additional customer missions

Planet Launches High-Resolution Pelican-2 Satellite & 36 SuperDoves- Business Wire

Pixxel Launches World’s Highest-Resolution Hyperspectral Satellites, Kickstarts Firefly Constellation for Climate Action- Business Wire

constellr Launches First Satellite, Ushering in a New Era of Global Thermal Monitoring- Business Wire

SpaceX

Space startup funding set for boost from US-China rivalry in 2025, report says- Reuters

China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'- Live Science

10 predictions for the space economy in 2025

A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever - Ars Technica

Astrophotography and the ISS with Don Pettit.

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