True Anomily just raised $260 million in a Series C funding round led by Excel.

The space and defense startup is less than three years old.

It was co-founded by CEO Evan Rogers, who previously served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force,

focused on tactical operations in space.

When we went out to raise the Series C, we really raised it as a defense route.

And that is the purpose of this company.

True anomaly, I say first and foremost, as a defense company.

And it reflects a moment where the space domain has really become a war fighting domain.

That started in 2017. The Space Force was stood up shortly thereafter. And the Space Force is now just turning into a real warfighting service.

And that means that it has capabilities to go by and build and operators to go train.

And we've positioned ourselves as a defense partner to provide capabilities specifically for space superiority.

True Anomaly develops spacecraft that can maneuver

near other satellites in orbit. Its jackal vehicle is designed for close proximity operations,

and three have been launched to low Earth orbit so far. The new capital will be used to ramp

production and support future missions to geosynchronous and even cis lunar orbit.

We're looking across our supply chain and thinking about where do we need to make

strategic investments in order to make sure that we can not just build two spacecraft or three spacecraft,

but hundreds of spacecraft. And the capital rays is an element of what allows us to really do that.

On this episode, True Anomalies Evan Evan Rogers, on securing and defending space through

hardware and software.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is Manifest Space.

Joining me now, Evan Rogers, the co-founder and CEO of True Anomily.

...