🔎 TODAY’S DAILY SIFT: THE ORBIT Space is quietly becoming something different. Territory. The United States has publicly acknowledged deploying weapons in orbit. China responded by warning that continued military expansion could trigger a space arms race. Last night SpaceX launched another classified Space Force mission. Its second in six days. Now follow the money. Impulse Space raised another $308 million, bringing its Series D to $808 million. Its mission is not simply getting payloads into orbit. It wants to move them once they are there. EnduroSat raised another $205 million to scale satellite manufacturing. Different stories. Same signal. Orbit is developing infrastructure. Launch. Transportation. Manufacturing. Communications. Observation. Defense. And Starship is preparing for a test intended to reach orbit and deploy Starlink V3 satellites. For decades the question was: Can we get there? The next question is much bigger: Who controls what happens...