News Summary

• Impulse Space says it has raised $500 million in a Series D funding round.
• The funding round values the ‌company at $4.26 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
• The company was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first employee.
• Mueller led development of rocket engines that helped turn Elon Musk's company into the world's dominant launch provider."Launch has pretty much been solved.
• The challenge now is getting everywhere else beyond low Earth orbit," Mueller said.