Launch customers embrace non-Russian rockets
Amazon today announced contracts with three companies for up to 83 launches over a five-year period for its 3,236-satellite Project ...
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SpaceX may launch half-empty Starships, upending satellite economics
A potential sellers’ market for launch companies appears off the table, even as the much-anticipated Starship service by SpaceX begins ...
‘We have democratized access to space,’ DCVC’s Boshuizen says
“Anyone here could more or less take out a mortgage on their home and launch their own cubesat program with ...
A space startup worth $4 billion swears off fizzling SPAC craze
(Bloomberg) -- One of the most valuable private space startups after Elon Musk’s SpaceX is the type of company that ...
Stoke Space lands $65M in round led by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy
Seattle-based fully reusable rocket developer Stoke Space Technologies on Dec. 15 closed a $65 million series A funding round led ...
Launch faces ‘most important year’ amid ramp of new rockets
Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel summed up the launch sector in 2021-2022 as “one of the most important years in space.” ...
Sierra Space attracts $1.4 billion investment
Sierra Space announced Nov. 18 that it has secured $1.4 billion in investment as part of a series A funding ...
Space trends: More M&A may be on the horizon
Does the recent $3.2 billion Eutelsat takeover offer herald an era of increased mergers and acquisitions? Carissa Christensen, CEO and founder of research firm BryceTech, thinks it does. Larger companies ...
Astra Space touts its factory, space SPACs report progress
Companies that have completed transactions with special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are providing forecasts and clarifying plans to serve a ...
Telesat to tap export credit agencies to finalize funding of Lightspeed satellite constellation
Telesat is seeking additional funding primarily from export credit agencies to complete financing of the Lightspeed low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation. Announcing a $1.12 ...
