State agency and science museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles
Blue Origin has opened talks to raise $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation, marking the firm's first major external fundraising since its 2000 founding. Coatue Management is expected to lead with a multibillion-dollar commitment; Jeff Bezos is set to add several billion. The move follows May's New Glenn explosion and ongoing recovery work.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a 10-year program that will image the southern sky every few nights. The telescope has started regular operations from its Chilean mountaintop site and is already returning new detections, including thousands of asteroids and transient views such as Comet 3I/ATLAS.