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# Germany's Polaris Spaceplanes raises EUR 5.4 million seed top-up for AURORA
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-06-13-polaris-spaceplanes-funding/
- Published: 2025-06-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T04:02:27.000Z
- Description: German start-up POLARIS Spaceplanes raised an oversubscribed EUR 5.4 million seed top-up, led by Capnamic Ventures Bremen and Spacewalk VC. The round lifts its total funding to EUR 12.4 million for its AURORA hypersonic spaceplane.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [European Spaceflight, 13 June 2025](https://europeanspaceflight.com/germanys-polaris-spaceplanes-secures-e5-4m-in-new-funding/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish a government contract, a military customer, or that AURORA has flown.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-20\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)