Industry is working every day to establish a long-term, sustainable human presence on the lunar surface. But the challenge of creating a complete, end-to-end cislunar economy doesn’t end with touchdown—or even with setting up shop permanently on the surface. To close the loop, material from the Moon also has to make its way back to Earth.
The Voyager Technologies ($VOYG) family is getting a little bit bigger. The broad-spanning space tech company announced Monday that it is acquiring ExoTerra Resource, a CO-based company building electric satellite propulsion systems. The companies did not disclose the financial details of the deal.
This week, a pair of primes—Lockheed Martin ($LMT) and Northrop Grumman ($NOC)—and satcom operator Iridium ($IRDM) reported their revenues for the third quarter. We’ve got the roundup of all the space-related tidbits inside.
Lynk Global, a satellite operator with a constellation of D2D and IoT-enabled satellites, plans to merge with telecom firm Omnispace to expand their business across both commercial and government lines.
Vantor—the artist formerly known as Maxar Intelligence—is expanding its relationship with the DoD through another in-space awareness contract.
On Friday, the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which supports both DoD and the intelligence community with imagery collected in orbit, awarded Planet Labs a $12.8M contract through the Luno B program.
Europe is still waiting on reliable access to space. Investors are keen on shortening that wait.
When it comes down to it, the space industry is about building stuff. That’s Alexa Villa’s specialty.
fter his time at SpaceX, Sinclair made the leap to Turion. Sinclair moved across the country to join the company when it was a small startup of seven people (though he’s now one of 140+).
Alex Reynolds is the founder and CEO of ATTX, a two-year-old startup building the software stack for clients in the space industry. The idea: create software that can work for clients across the space ecosystem, and eliminate the need for companies to build all their own stuff.
Space tech does a lot of good for people down here on Earth. For Sairaksha Kesarla, an engineering program manager at Planet Labs ($PL), that’s the whole point.
“He has single-handedly elevated what it means to produce excellent engineering work here at Apex, and has set the standard for every program to come,” Nicolas Gutierrez, head of RF and comms at Apex, said about Spencer. “We definitely could not have done it without him.”
