September 11, 2026 — Illinois-based additive manufacturing company Impossible Objects announced a $40 million Series B round to scale its Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) technology — a broader AM/aerospace-materials development rather than satellite-specific, but relevant to the supply chain feeding low-cost satellite structures.
August 19, 2026 — Hadrian raised $1.37 billion in a Series D round at a $7.87 billion valuation — roughly five times its valuation a year earlier — aimed at expanding its factory network and pushing beyond precision parts toward complete mission-critical systems, with the Fortastra satellite-manufacturing MOU cited as part of that momentum.
Late July 2026 (announced July 29–30, 2026) — Fortastra, a California spacecraft developer, and Hadrian, an automated-manufacturing company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The partnership establishes a framework for technical collaboration and future prototype work to address national security space missions, combining Hadrian's precision machining and additive manufacturing capabilities with Fortastra's spaceflight systems and qualification expertise.
June 5, 2026 — Satellite bus manufacturer Apex Space raised an additional $200 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, funding it has tied to scaling high-rate, low-cost bus production.
April 2026 — SWISSto12 opened a new cleanroom in Switzerland dedicated to scaling HummingSat output. The 1,000 m² facility expands its existing Renens site and is described as Switzerland's first domestic end-to-end satellite manufacturing site of this class, strengthening in-house payload integration and final assembly to reduce lead times.
November 2025 — SWISSto12 secured over €100 million ($116.7M) to industrialize HummingSat. The package combined €73 million from ESA member states via the ARTES HummingSat Partnership Project with additional European private capital raised in the second half of 2025, committed at the ESA Council at Ministerial Level in November 2025. HummingSat is a compact geostationary satellite whose design leans on SWISSto12's proprietary, space-qualified additive manufacturing to cut production time and cost.
September 10, 2025 — Boeing announced a new additive-manufacturing process for satellite solar arrays at its Spectrolab facility. The process cuts the print-to-assembly timeline by about six months, a production improvement of up to 50%, by printing structural elements and features directly into the substrate so arrays can be assembled in parallel with cell production. The approach is designed to scale from small satellites up to Boeing's larger 702-class platforms, with market availability targeted for 2026.