Space KineticSpace
Space Kinetic Awarded $50M by Space Force for Space Maneuverability and Space Architecture Technology
Contract award
PR Newswire
The week to 13 August 2026
Seven entries reached Space in the seven days to 13 August 2026, from five sources. The largest group was news items, at four. Six companies were named, one of them more than once, five of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried eight, one more.
Contract award
3Firefly AerospaceSpace
Firefly Aerospace Onboarded to NASA Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract
Contract award
GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry
Axiom SpaceSpace
Axiom Space: Federal or defense contract award, $1.7M from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Contract award
USAspending
News item
4FortastraSpace
Fortastra Taps 20-Year Space Force Veteran to Lead National Security Product Strategy
News item
PR Newswire
Firefly AerospaceSpace
Firefly Aerospace Awarded Contract to Design Elytra Deorbit System for Defense Innovation Unit
News item
GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry
Rocket LabSpace
Rocket Lab unveils containerized launch system for deployable spaceports
News item
AeroTime
US Space ForceGovernment
Schiess confirmed as third Space Force chief
News item
Breaking Defense
Where the week came from
five sources supplied the 7 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.
| Source | Entries |
|---|---|
| GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry | 2 |
| PR Newswire, Aerospace and Defense | 2 |
| AeroTime | 1 |
| Breaking Defense | 1 |
| USAspending.gov award data | 1 |
How this edition was put together
Every row is an entry in the record, fetched again at its source on the day the record was read and confirmed to carry its excerpt. The groups are the record's own event classes, ordered as a reader of this segment reads them rather than by score alone, and within a group by the record's score and then by date.
The counts on this page are arithmetic over those rows and nothing else. Nothing is added about a company that its own entry does not carry, and the edition is assembled by software, so no line here is an opinion about anyone. What gets in, and what does not is the standard the entries are held to.
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