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• Italian startup ORiS raises funding for laser power-beaming technology

  

  Italian startup ORiS has raised 5 million euros ($5.7 million) to help it develop wireless power-beaming technology for satellites using lasers.

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• Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy

  

  The energy sector has spent decades learning how to manage complex disputes that touch on sovereign power, geopolitics, regulation and private capital. Those same dynamics are at play in the […]

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• AI rocket engine startup LegendSpace raises $29.5 million angel round

  

  HELSINKI — A six-month-old Chinese startup aiming to use artificial intelligence to compress rocket engine development cycles has raised $29.5 million in angel funding. LegendSpace, full name Linjie Hangtian (Beijing) […]

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• Mauritius becomes 70th nation to sign the Artemis Accords

  

  The island nation of Mauritius signed the Artemis Accords July 17, becoming the 70th nation to do so in less than six years.

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• Space Force triples launch contract ceiling amid rising demand

  

  The maximum value of the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 contract was raised from $5.6 billion to $17 billion

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