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NASA confirmed on Nov 3 that it lost communications with Starfish Space's first Otter servicing spacecraft during commissioning of the $15 million SSPICY mission, after a fault protection system left the vehicle's radio turned off; Starfish, which has raised more than $150 million, still has at least six Otters under contract.
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The NRC finished its safety review of Dow's four Xe-100 reactors at Long Mott, Texas on Oct 30, an approval for X-energy that leaves a construction permit announcement as the next gate for the 320 MWe plant.
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German-British defence startup Hypersonica has raised €100 million (about $112 million) in a Series B led by Lightspeed and General Catalyst to turn its HS-1 prototype into a deployable hypersonic weapon with mass production targeted at 2029.
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Agility Robotics expects about $465 million from its Churchill Capital Corp XI combination, putting AGLT on track for a November 5 Nasdaq debut as the first pure-play US humanoid-robot stock. The listing lands in a week when Rocket Lab ended October roughly 64 percent below its 52-week high after delaying Neutron to 2027, NuScale signed a manufacturing deal yet trades near its low, and IonQ stacked another quantum award. Here is the weekly emerging-tech tape.
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Foundry Robotics closed a $100 million October Series A to build a robot-run assembly line for defense and industrial hardware, folding in an acquisition of teleoperation software maker Avea.
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