Weekly recap

Blue Origin plans a $330 million Rocket Park expansion at Cape Canaveral, due summer 2027, to build up to 150 New Glenn upper stages a year and add two launch and landing pads.

Virgin Galactic granted inducement restricted stock units covering 48,472 shares to two new non-executive employees, vesting over three years.

Virgin Galactic signed a 24-month research agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory to test its next-generation Spaceship as a platform for collecting space weather data.

TÜV Rheinland North America gave Teradyne its 2026 Excellence in Safety and Sustainability Leadership Award, citing a recycling rate that rose from 40% to 89% between 2021 and 2024.

IonQ priced a $2.0 billion equity offering at $40.00 per share, selling 20,500,000 shares and 29,500,000 pre-funded warrants plus warrants for 100,000,000 more shares at $69.46.

NVIDIA commits a compute donation valued at $250 million over five years, $50 million a year, to UK agentic AI safety and security research, including Oxford's BOLD, UCL's SOFAIR and Imperial.

SpaceX launched its 35th commercial resupply mission for NASA, CRS-35, on Oct. 13 from Cape Canaveral, sending Dragon with science and supplies to the ISS; docking is set for Oct. 15.

NVIDIA will take a minority stake of undisclosed size in French medical booking site Doctolib, which plans to run its own AI models on NVIDIA chips.

Voyager Technologies' Griffin-1 lunar lander passed environmental testing at NASA JPL ahead of a CLPS mission to deliver more than 1,100 pounds of cargo near the lunar South Pole.

Teradyne agreed to buy $300 million of FormFactor common stock as part of a technology collaboration on semiconductor test for advanced packaging, memory and silicon photonics.

IonQ agreed to buy enterprise security company Elisity in an all stock deal worth as much as $1.3 billion, including up to $150 million in performance based earnouts.

Redwire's fourth and final pair of ROSA solar wings for the ISS is launching on SpaceX CRS-35, finishing an eight wing upgrade worth more than 160 kW.