📝 Rendezvous Robotics raises $3M

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Rendezvous Robotics has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to reinvent how spacecraft are built, moving beyond the rocket fairing’s size limits with self-assembling modular tiles. The Denver-based startup, spun out of MIT by Ariel Ekblaw alongside space veterans Joe Landon and Phil Frank, is developing “tesserae” — flat-packed modules that magnetically dock, unlatch, and reconfigure in orbit, enabling satellites and space stations to be adaptive rather than static. Early demos on Blue Origin’s New Shepard and the ISS have already validated autonomous docking and self-correction, and the fresh capital, led by Aurelia Foundry and 8090 Industries, will help scale the tech from prototypes to full in-orbit builds. Targeting missions that demand larger antennas, solar arrays, and sensitive remote sensing, Rendezvous is positioning itself as a key player in the future of scalable, flexible space infrastructure, with ISS demos planned for 2026 and its first utility mission soon after.

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