Impulse Space, a California-based developer of orbital transfer vehicles, raised $150 million in Series B funding led by Founders Fund.
Why it matters: Impulse is led by the first employee at SpaceX, Tom Mueller, and intends to serve as a last-mile logistics provider for the satellite and payload boom that SpaceX helped enable.
Nearly six months after April's rare total solar eclipse, a small sliver of Americans will get the chance to see an annular solar eclipse or a partial eclipse today.
The big picture: An annular solar eclipse — also known as a "ring of fire" eclipse — will be visible from parts of Chile and Argentina with a partial eclipse visible from parts of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, according to NASA.
Hurricane Helene has left officials in six Southeastern states grappling to respond to the widespread destruction it caused after hitting Florida as a Category 4 storm last week.
The big picture: Officials confirmed at least 57 deathsin North Carolina Tuesdayand raised the death count in Georgia from 17 to 25 Monday, bringing the number of storm-related deaths across six states to more than 166, per AP.
Mules are helping deliver aid to residents in North Carolina as they grapple with the fallout from the destructive Hurricane Helene.
The big picture: Five Southeastern states are responding to widespread devastation caused from the hurricane that made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm last week, withthe death toll surpassing 130.
Hurricane Helene's damage across five southeastern states is still emerging some three days on from it making landfall in Florida's Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm.
The big picture: The storm has killed at least 132 people in North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, which former President Trump visited on Monday. President Biden said he plans to visit storm-hit areas of N.C. on Wednesday and Georgia and Florida "as soon as possible."
