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Charts Defining the Space Industry in Q3: Analysis

Astranis, a startup building small GEO broadband satellites for targeted service, led the way this quarter with its $200M monster Series D round, by far the largest US space raise so far in 2024.

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Robinhood Cofounder Reveals New Space Solar Power Start-Up

Aetherflux is preparing to launch a satellite in late 2025 or early 2026 to generate solar power and beam it back to Earth.

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Satellite Break-up Experiment to Help ESA Learn How Satellites Die

The Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object mission, or DRACO, will be the first demo of a fully controlled break-up during its return to Earth.

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BlackSky Expands Non-Earth Imaging Capabilities with HEO Deal

Intel collected by non-Earth imaging (NEI) provides greater space domain awareness for defense and commercial assets on orbit.

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Astroscale Wins Next Phase of UK’s COSMIC Mission

Astroscale’s UK branch announced it had won a contract on Wednesday to continue working on an active debris removal mission that will take two defunct British sats out of orbit.

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Slingshot Tracks Centaur Break-Up in HEO

The second stage of a ULA rocket that sent a NOAA weather satellite to orbit in 2018 broke apart dramatically in orbit last week, generating a debris cloud first tracked by Slingshot Aerospace.

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Maxar Opens UK HQ for International Government Biz

Part of the team’s directive is to uncover ways to tailor Maxar’s data and analytics tools to fit the individual intelligence gathering needs of allied nations.

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Intuitive Machines Will Build A Lunar Communications Network 

“We sell minutes on the network, something like a million minutes a year, to NASA.”

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Planet Labs Commercial Revenue Is Softening

When Planet Labs went public in 2021, the company touted a commercial Earth observation market on the verge of an inflection point. 

The opposite has happened.

BusinessEOStartups

Esper Satellites’ Sales Surge Despite Losing Its First Satellite

The startup’s sales have ballooned from less than $1M in revenue at the start of the year to more than $10M now, CEO Shoaib Iqbal revealed to Payload.

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Meet the Techstars Fall Class of 2024

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Quantum Timekeepers Raise $3.7M For A Precise Clock

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ATLAS Raises $15M To Bolster Ground-Station Software Biz

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Rocket Lab Launches Five Kinéis IoT Satellites

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French Launcher Sirius to Fly From Australia

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ESA Astronauts Get New Tech For Moonwalking Practice