Jacqueline Feldscher

People already trade on future markets for everything from oil, to corn, to gold. Space Markets is asking: Why not space?

Space-tech startup Observable Space has closed a $90M Series A to boost its production of laser and optical hardware—in addition to expanding internationally beyond the US.

“Often in a fundraise like this, there’s some narrative of, ‘Okay, well, now we move into this new line of business, or now we go build the factory in Ohio,’” President and COO Eric Romo told Payload. “There’s none of that here. This is really about, ‘We need more of the same. We need to continue on the same trajectory we’re on.’”

The House’s annual defense authorization bill would eliminate the two offices within the Pentagon designed to speed up space acquisition.

Officials said the nearly 80-year-old requirement that federal employees serve in their current positions for at least one year before they may be promoted is “outdated.”

The IRS said that it has collected around $7.5 billion due to whistleblowers since 2007.

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“With Astrobotic, Voyager is now a lunar platform that will have capability at every infrastructure layer needed to put Americans on the lunar surface and keep them there.”

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“The industry position will now shape the path forward as NASA proceeds with the original commercial strategy.”