Aerospace is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Impulse Space raises a $500M Series D to fund hiring (up to 200 people) and advance Mira/Helios in-space mobility for Space Force buyers, while publicly arguing AI isn’t ready for hardware design.
A detailed reverse-engineering of Spacelab's Mitra 125 MS ALU across three boards, revealing a 32-bit ALU architecture on a 16-bit system, with historical regulatory context and a later IBM upgrade path.
The Arma Micro Computer (1962) was a 22-bit serial, discrete-component aerospace computer using non-destructive transfluxor memory, with 120 I/O and a 19-instruction set, that led to later Arma models and tied to Atlas/aircraft navigation—illustrative of early microcomputer concepts and the pre-IC era before silicon took over.
ISSpresso case study shows that spaceflight costs are driven by certification and safety-overhead, not launch price, with concrete data on a $150 Earth espresso maker becoming a multi-million, 20 kg space hardware item and broader regulatory implications for Mars missions.
Skyroot Aerospace becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn after a $60M funding round at a $1.1B pre-money valuation, funding manufacturing scale and Vikram-2 development ahead of a private Vikram-1 orbital launch, amid a broader shift enabling private space in India.
Swiss spacetech Pave Space raises a $40 million seed round amid rising concerns about space sovereignty.
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