Stoke Space
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Sep 16, 2026
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this International Space Summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's International Space Summit next week according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies, including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra, that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So- This is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords, everybody's supposed to be uniting and working together, but now France is holding this international space summit, and the White House is telling these aerospace companies not to go.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this International Space Summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's International Space Summit next week, according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So this is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this International Space Summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's International Space Summit next week, according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So this is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this International Space Summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's International Space Summit next week according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies, including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra, that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So this is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords.
Paul MayerHOST
Moving on to the lightning round for the day.
Paul MayerHOST
So starting with business moves, Stoke Space has raised a $1 billion round led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital.
Paul MayerHOST
This Series E brings the total capital raised by Stoke Space to 2.3 billion, as they prepare both the Nova Pathfinder for their first flight and unveil their larger 15-ton class Nova vehicle that they'll be developing after the Pathfinder.
Paul MayerHOST
They're targeting early 2027 for the first orbital launch of Pathfinder.
Paul MayerHOST
Something that we sort of spoke about and, uh, speculated on earlier in the year was AST SpaceMobile's potential acquisition of Stoke Space.
Paul MayerHOST
This Series E raise basically moves them out of, out of the price range that AST SpaceMobile would be able to meaningfully sort of hit.
Paul MayerHOST
Um, so I think, I think this pretty clearly means that AST SpaceMobile will not be able to acquire Stoke Space.
Paul MayerHOST
Um, though the...
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this international space summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's international space summit next week according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies, including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra, that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So this is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords.
Tom PattonHOST
The company says it will now move through a design, build, test, and validate cycle, a process meant to raise the manufacturing readiness level of the Hydra hardware.
Tom PattonHOST
Stoke Space Technologies has closed on the first part of a $1 billion funding round.
Tom PattonHOST
That brings the company's total capital raise to $2.3 billion, and it hasn't even flown its first orbital rocket yet.
Tom PattonHOST
Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this international space summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's international space summit next week, according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies, including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra, that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So this is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this International Space Summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's International Space Summit next week, according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So this is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords, everybody's supposed to be uniting and working together, but now France is holding this International Space Summit, and the White House is telling these aerospace companies not to go.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So there's literally coming up here, September 9th through 10th in France, there is this International Space Summit, and the White House is discouraging major US space companies from attending France's International Space Summit next week, according to Politico.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told companies, including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra, that attending could be viewed as tacit support for EU policy positions.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The companies were to- told the final decision remains theirs, but the industry representatives interpreted the message as pressure to stay away.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So this is interesting because we have these Artemis Accords.
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