Subscribe to Payload’s news feed.
Click on “Follow” and decide if you want to get news from Payload via RSS, as email newsletter, via mobile or on your personal news page.
Subscription to Payload comes without risk as you can unsubscribe instantly at any time.
You can also filter the feed to your needs via topics and keywords so that you only receive the news from Payload which you are really interested in. Click on the blue “Filter” button below to get started.
Website title: Payload Space - We cover the business and policy of space.
Is this your feed? Claim it!
For spacecraft software teams, every new program can feel like Groundhog Day.
CO-based WarpWare closed its $1.2M pre-seed round today to expand what it calls an AI-enabled engineering platform for space missions.
The round—raised through SAFEs—was primarily angel-funded. Angel groups including the Rockies Venture Club, Cowtown Angels, and the Aggie Angel ...
EraDrive, the Palo Alto, CA-based startup building autonomous capabilities for satellites, won a $13M DoD award, under which the Space Force will buy an undisclosed number of the company’s Era-Node vision-based autonomy modules.
The Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) award is intended to provide direct procurement funding for...
RATLOG launched this week—but not from a pad.
The heavy-lift rocket startup debuted in Y Combinator as part of the Fall 2026 batch.
As students in Dresden, Germany, the RATLOG founders were disappointed by the lack of ambitious job opportunities availab...
Seraphim Space Investment Trust ($SSIT) published its FY26 financials yesterday, revealing a valuation of £605.5M (€716.3M)—more than double its value in June 2025.
Seraphim’s major holdings—ICEYE, ALL.SPACE, D-Orbit, HawkEye 360, and Xona Space Systems, which together represent more than 75% of the firm’s portfolio—all had a great year, and that success has trickl...
The UK Space Agency is dressing up as a waste-management company for Halloween.
Yesterday, the agency announced its selection of ClearSpace, the in-orbit servicing startup with offices in the UK, to act as the prime contractor for UKSA’s first active-debris removal (ADR) mission launching NET 2029.
Under the contract worth ~£61M ($81M), ClearSpace will at...