SAN FRANCISCO – Spaceflight training startup Orbite has raised $4 million to expand its business, which combines astronaut training with luxury vacations. After raising $4 million in a Series A […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – French propulsion startup Ion-X raised 13 million euros ($13.67 million) in a Series A funding round announced Dec. 10. With the investment, the spinoff of the French […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – German thermal data startup constellr announced a multiyear contract Dec. 9 with the German Space Agency DLR. Under the contract, constellr will begin supplying 30-meter native resolution […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – German materials technology startup FibreCoat raised nearly 20 million euros ($21 million) in a Series B funding round announced Dec. 4. NewSpace Capital and Goose Capital jointly […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup Viridian Space Corp. is developing an electric propulsion system for spacecraft in very low Earth orbit that scoops up air for plasma thrusters. The […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Los Angeles startup Matter Intelligence has emerged from stealth with $12 million to develop a unique Earth-observation sensor suite. The suite, which combines a high-resolution camera with […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Solstar Space plans to conduct the first spaceflight testing next year of its narrowband satellite data-relay transceiver. The test is the culmination of more than 10 years […]

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Los Angeles startup Proteus Space announced a strategic partnership Oct. 22 with government contractor SAIC. In addition, SAIC made a “significant investment” in the startup. The […]

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MILAN – Spire Global and Canadian startup Mission Control announced plans Oct. 16 for Persistence, a technology demonstration mission focused on space-based artificial intelligence. “The Persistence mission will demonstrate resilient […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Los Angeles-based startup Charter Space has started beta testing its space systems and program management software platform. The platform, called Ubik, is designed to help engineering teams […]

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PARIS — Italian space logistics firm D-Orbit has raised 150 million euros ($168 million) in a two-part Series C funding round. After announcing investments of 100 million euros in January, […]

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In the race to create the next big thing, today’s entrepreneurs are missing one critical ingredient: a daring spirit. It’s this spirit that first propelled humanity into space but which […]

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PARIS – Startup Samara Aerospace won a SpaceWERX contract to develop a unique approach to satellite pointing. Under a $1.25 million direct-to-phase two contract awarded in late August, Samara Aerospace […]

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PARIS – Impulse Space announced a contract Sept. 16 to provide transportation to geostationary orbit for satellites from French startup Space Network Services. It was the first agreement announced for […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Los Angeles startup Proteus Space plans to launch in 2025 what it says will be “the world’s first AI-designed” ESPA-class satellite. The ESPA low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite […]

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PARIS – The European Space Agency plans to test space traffic management services offered by Portuguese startup Neuraspace. Under a contract announced Sept. 16, ESA’s Space Debris Office will integrate […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Without context, Interlune’s plan to extract Helium-3 from lunar regolith to fulfill terrestrial demand sounds improbable. Even Interlune co-founder and chief technology officer Gary Lai was skeptical […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Air Force awarded Canopy Aerospace two contracts with a combined value of $2.8 million to develop thermal protection systems (TPS). One contract focuses on Canopy’s […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Collimate Space, a new Silicon Valley startup, aims to tackle a specific problem for satellite operators. Collimate offers a tool for predicting the success of satellite downlinks, […]

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SAN FRANCISCO — TrustPoint, a startup developing a next-generation global navigation satellite system, won SpaceWERX contracts with a combined value of $3.8 million. Under two SpaceWERX direct-to-phase 2 contracts, TrustPoint […]

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LOGAN, Utah – Houston startup Little Place Labs announced a contract to deploy software to Loft Orbital’s YAM-6 satellite. “We’ll pair Loft’s low-latency operations, using its space infrastructure, with our […]

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LOGAN, Utah — German startup Dcubed raised 4.4 million euros ($4.8 million) in a Series A funding round. With the investment, announced Aug. 5, Dcubed will expand production, demonstrate in-space […]

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LOGAN, Utah – Space weather startup Perceptive Space raised $2.8 million in a pre-seed investment round announced Aug. 6. Toronto-based Perceptive Space promises “space weather predictions that are more accurate […]

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LOGAN, Utah — Benchmark Space Systems announced a strategic partnership Aug. 5 with startup Starlight Engines. Under the agreement announced at the Small Satellite Conference here, Benchmark will offer hybrid […]

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