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CEOs take a deep breath, analysts prepare calculators, investors renewed stock signs in an obsessive manner, and each market is a potential role of Open’s potential RollerCoaster: Three -month earnings.

In the space industry, it is a quieter event in which some big names of blue origin from Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are far from opening to the public so far. Still in space activities (also), the minister and Boeing and Lockheed Martin to Virgin Galactic, which will be listed, have a solid bag. Voyager Technologies just entered the public arena last month, and after the stocks raised their first public offering, the company rose more than 80% on the first trading day.

And then there is the other new child set to enter the block of Nasdaq: rocket producer Firefly Aerospace’s “Fly” felt symbol under the symbol and then trade. He has not yet put forward the number of shares to be presented and the price range, but the company’s success in touching the blue ghost month descent per month is expected to attract some attention.

Seraphim, in the second quarter, according to a report covering industrial activities, the sector’s initiatives withdrew money in April-June, defense opportunities “continuous interest” and developed a sense of market after a temporary pause in the United States. There is no big surprise in safety -related earnings: from intelligence meeting to imaging, communication and navigation, it is not quite separated for field defense operations. This year, the US Golden Dome missile cutting system, Europe’s “Rearm” initiative and NATO Allies until 2035 until the end of the terrible domestic products of the promise of increasing the promise of defense contributions further.

In total, the investment in space initiatives reached $ 3.1 billion, depending on April-June, and the second quarter of the biggest investments in the records of Seraphim Space and an increase of approximately $ 2.1 billion in January-March period. In an unpredictable way, US companies absorbed the lion’s share in the second quarter space technology finance as 2.2 billion dollars or 70%. This means that despite the fact that the Christmas investments of the US space businesses, federal contracts and NASA budget cuts and the volatility triggered by the last US administration’s protectionist trade policies, it has already exceeded the sum of the entire 2024.

Only two out -of -US agreements in the first 10 donors of the second quarter, one of the German launch services supplier Isar Aerospace, a 174 million dollar C round and the other China positioning service provider Qianxun spatial intelligence meets $ 137 million B series funds. In the meantime, the US Start Impulse Space made the best agreement for the second quarter in the C Series increase of 300 million dollars.

In general, venture capital companies have remained the most active space investors in recent months and have contributed to 77% of the 2025 financing in the industry to date, according to Space Capital’s second quarterly Space IQ report. The company defined the Habitats-Mühettebat Space Stations-and at the same time strong financing acceleration for orbit service and energy production and storage.

Pointing out that 18 acquisitions in the second quarter, Space Capital marked that more than 10 “high -valuable” agreements in 2025 will be expected to close a total of $ 35 billion.

And space businesses are also investing. The town’s speech is a Wall Street Journal report that shows that SpaceX accepted to invest $ 2 billion in Xai, the manufacturer of SpaceX’s Satellite Network Starlink’s Satellite Network. The investment of the space company in Xai is a wider WSJ said that the effort to collect $ 10 billion debt and self -donation, previously announced by Morgan Stanley, referred to resources. CNBC reached Xai and SpaceX for comment.

• Trump called Sean Duffy as a temporary NASA chief – US President Donald Trump directed the transport secretary Sean Duffy Temporary directing NASA. In May, the White House leader was nominated for technology billionaire Jared Isaacman to preside the US Space Agency. – Cnn
• Macron says England needs to increase the field investment – French President Emmanuel Macron, who spoke with British MPs, said that Britain should increase their investments in space initiatives by arguing that European affairs cannot stay among them. – Developed television
• ESA BOOKS Access from Guiana Space Center to 2035 – The European Space Agency has announced an agreement with the French government to get an access to the official space area in the French Guyanası for the next decade. – Weekly Electronics
• Findings from the month examples of 6 to Chang announced – Check some of the discoveries made after returning to Chang with the return of 6 to the interior of the volcanic and magnetic repercussions. The first physical examples on the far side of the moon. – Orbital today
• Scientists define the largest black hole combination so far – Scientists identified fluctuations pointing to the violent collision of two large black holes involving each other, then united to create a tremendous black hole far beyond the edge of the Milky Way. – Guardian

• Israel Started Dr. Communication Satellite – Israel Aerospace Industries’s Drort 1 National Communication Satellite went into space at SpaceX Falcon 9 and successfully conveyed his first signals to the control station. – Defense Industry Europe
• China’s land area to start the reusable rocket this year -The private company Landspace is preparing to launch the reusable methane Zhuque-3 rocket in the fourth quarter and is then looking for contracts for Chinese satellite launch. – Space.com
• Tispace Rocket cannot make Japan’s first foreign launch -The private firm Tayvan Tispace did not see the flight of the 12 -meter hybrid fuel VP01 rocket from the first foreign launch from the Japanese lands. – Reuters

• SpaceX valuation will reach 400 billion dollars – SpaceX is looking for donations collection and sharing sales plans that can push the rocket manufacturer’s valuation to approximately $ 400 billion by referring to resources. This will be the greatest valuation for a private US company. – Bloomberg
• Varda is financing $ 187 million to provide drugs in space – Space Startup Varda, “to support the work on more complex molecules and ultimately to increase the return time of the pharmaceutical industry to increase Cadence to increase the production of Cadence to maintain the production of drugs in a C series of 187 million dollars, he said. – CNBC
• ROKET Maker Firefly Aerospace to public offering – Firefly Aviation, Nasdaq’da to open the public and public offers in the midst of a wider revival under the symbol of the “fly” was applied to trade under the symbol. – CNBC