Orbex, the U.K. rocket company, received 16.7 million pounds ($20.8 million) in funding from a group of six significant investors in an update to its Series C funding round. Investors involved in the deal include 10.5 million pounds ($13 million) of follow-on investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank, venture capital firms Octopus Ventures, BGF,…

Finnish satellite company Iceye raised $93 million in growth funding, led by Finland’s sovereign wealth fund Solidium. Other investors include Move Capital Fund I, Blackwells Capital, Christo Georgiev, and existing investors. Iceye announced the round on Wednesday.  Iceye operates a constellation of satellites that collect synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, which can monitor Earth at…

Blackswan Space has secured $800k in pre-seed funding round. The company, based out of Vilnius, Lithuania, is looking to develop software products for complex space & defense missions. The funding round was led by ScaleWolf, a hybrid accelerator and fund for defense tech with participation from Linas Sargautis, co-founder of NanoAvionics, Lemonade Stand, Baltic Sandbox…

HawkEye 360 has secured $40 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the satellite data company announced Tuesday. HawkEye said it plans to use the funds to improve its technological infrastructure and continue the buildout of its satellite constellation.  HawkEye 360 operates a constellation of radio frequency (RF) monitoring satellites and sells geospatial…