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Space Startups Banked a Record $20.8B in One Quarter By TechPulse USA News Desk | 14 October 2026 Twenty billion dollars. In three months. For companies that build rockets, satellites and the factories in between. If that number sounds like a typo, it is not — and the most interesting thing about it is not even the number itself. It is that you can delete the single biggest deal of the quarter, a $10 billion financing for Blue Origin, and what remains is still the biggest quarter the space industry has ever recorded. That is the moment space stopped being a venture-capital side bet and started looking like an industrial build-out. Seraphim, the global investment firm that has tracked space funding longer than almost anyone, published its third-quarter figures on Wednesday, 14 October. Private space startups pulled in a record $20.8 billion between July and September 2026, nearly triple the $7.4 billion of the second quarter and more than double the previous all-time peak. The deal ...

New Glenn lifts off on its second flight (November 13, 2025, the successful ESCAPADE mission) — Bezos now promises a return to flight in December 2026 after the May pad explosion. (Photo: U.S. Space Force, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) "Our goal is to fly every day. And then once we're flying every day, we want to fly every hour. And then once we're flying every hour, we want to fly every minute." That was Jeff Bezos, on Fox News, five months after his rocket exploded on the launch pad. The man has either seen the future or lost the plot — and both are worth taking seriously. The interview — Bezos's first extended sit-down at Blue Origin's Cape Canaveral facility — was ostensibly about his vision for American spaceflight. What it actually delivered was a credibility bet: a December return-to-flight promise, a first-ever mention of a Blue Origin IPO, and an FAA filing that would quadruple his launch allowance. The smart money says December is impo...