Hypersonics provider X-Bow Systems has closed an interim funding round headed by Lockheed Martin’s venture unit. Crosslink Capital, Razor’s Edge Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, Bravo Victor Venture Capital and Capital Factory were the other investors, X-Bow announced from its Albuquerque, New Mexico headquarters on Thursday.

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X-Bow Systems has secured a $64 million contract from the Department of Defense to supply large solid rocket motors to the U.S. Navy and Army. The SRMs will boost the propulsion of the Navy's hypersonic All Up Round system, which is a component of the Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike and the Army's Long Range Hypersonic weapon systems.

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X-Bow Systems has partnered with the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory to conduct the second test launch of its Bolt Rocket at White Sands Missile Range. The XL-2B mission demonstrated X-Bow’s new family of suborbital and orbital launch vehicles under the Responsive Development Experiment program, which enables LANL to use commercial space flight […] More

The U.S. Air Force’s innovation arm has granted X-Bow Systems a potential $60 million Strategic Funding Increase award to boost its solid rocket motor production capabilities. Through the additional investment from AFWERX, X-Bow will expand its work with the Air Force Research Laboratory to accelerate additive manufacturing of solid rocket motors, the space technology company […] More