Turion Space Secures $75 Million Series B to Scale Space Domain Awareness Fleet

New updates have been reported about Turion Space.

Turion Space has raised more than $75 million in a Series B round led by Washington Harbour Partners, capital that will be used to rapidly expand its DROID spacecraft fleet, intelligence-collection capabilities, and Starfire operating system for Space Domain Awareness missions. The financing follows two successful missions, DROID.001 and DROID.002, which have already generated over 40,000 non-Earth images, validating Turion’s technical approach and supporting its push to become a core infrastructure provider for U.S. and allied space operations.

Existing investors Aurelia Foundry, Forward Deployed VC, and FoundersX participated pro rata, while new investors including Center15 Capital, Magnetar, HOF Capital, and Industrious Ventures joined the syndicate, underscoring confidence in Turion’s commercial and government pipeline. CEO Ryan Westerdahl said the funds will accelerate fleet deployment, expand reconnaissance coverage from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit, and scale Starfire from constellation-level command to theater-scale operations, positioning the company as a “sovereign-grade” space infrastructure layer for defense and national security customers.

With the new capital, Turion plans to increase manufacturing throughput from eight spacecraft per year to a target capacity of 40, deepening its supply chain and enabling fivefold production growth to support fleet proliferation. Near-term execution will center on Turion’s ongoing work with the U.S. Space Force’s STRATFI program, including three planned launches to LEO and GEO, as well as expansion of high-resolution non-Earth imaging to better identify, track, and characterize orbital objects in real time.

Turion’s platform integrates DROID spacecraft for dynamic orbital operations, bespoke reconnaissance payloads, and Starfire software modules for mission planning, autonomous tasking, and multi-satellite command and control, and is designed to support both Turion-owned assets and third-party constellations. The company has secured 28 U.S. government contracts since its 2021 founding and is advancing programs with NASA, the U.S. Space Force, the Space Development Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office, contributing to a reported multi-billion-dollar opportunity pipeline in space superiority, missile warning and tracking, orbital resilience, and multi-spectral sensing.

Backer Washington Harbour Partners framed Turion as building the operational backbone for space domain awareness by combining purpose-built satellites with real-time software-driven intelligence. Strategically, the raise strengthens Turion’s position as the first NOAA-licensed U.S. commercial provider of resolved non-Earth imaging, supports headcount and operations at its Irvine, California, headquarters of roughly 200 employees, and advances its longer-term vision of enabling responsible in-space resource utilization while reinforcing U.S. and allied space superiority.