
Auriga Space has raised $4.6 million in a seed round and garnered $1.4 million in additional U.S. government funding to accelerate the development of an electromagnetic launch platform for “lab-scale and recoverable hypersonic testing,” and eventually frequent launches into orbit. The seed round was led by the Netherlands OTB Ventures and the Small Business Innovation Research Contracts were awarded by the U.S. Air Force AFWERX and U.S. SpaceWERX innovation units. The Los Angeles-based company, which was founded in 2022 and…