Weekly recap

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL on its 24th ISS resupply mission left the station carrying 12 small KREPE-3 capsules that test heat shield materials during reentry

SpaceX agreed to buy up to 14 MHz of paired 800 MHz spectrum from Grain Management for about $8 billion in cash to support Starlink Mobile, pending FCC approval.

Blue Origin raised $10 billion in its first major outside funding round, reportedly valuing it at $140 billion; Jeff Bezos said it could go public in the future.

NVIDIA commits $1 billion over five years to US scientific research, including quantum computing, healthcare and energy work with national labs.

IonQ advanced to Stage C of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, under an agreement worth up to $300 million.

SpaceX is seeking to raise $40 billion in new debt, $10 billion in bank loans and $30 billion in investment grade debt, to buy NVIDIA chips for data centers, Bloomberg reported.

Voyager Technologies signed a contract with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space to manage Symphony Biosciences' cancer implant experiment aboard the International Space Station.

Prodigy Clean Energy and the Pabineau and Eel River Bar First Nations selected BWXT's BANR microreactor for a transportable nuclear power plant planned in Belledune, New Brunswick.

Redwire won a follow-on contract from Axiom Space to build two Roll-Out Solar Array wings for Axiom Station's second module.

Voyager Technologies won a $22.4 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Department of War's Strategic Capabilities Office to prototype next-generation satellite deployment systems.