The Space Industry’s Climate Impact: Part 2
Spaceflight can be a filthy business.
Spaceflight can be a filthy business.
Apex is getting new digs as it preps to ramp up its satellite manufacturing.
True Anomaly has pulled in a $100M Series B to help it build and deploy its space tech and ensure national security extends into Earth’s orbit for the US and its allies.
Armada, an SF-based startup building AI-powered tools to improve data processing, emerged from stealth yesterday with $55M in hand.
It turns out Transporter-9 deployment didn’t go as smoothly as planned for some passengers. Momentus ($MNTS) announced last week that three of the five satellites it had carried failed to deploy from the third-party deployer it used for the mission, and are now presumed lost.
Space technology benefits humanity every day, from scientific understanding to the nuts and bolts of supporting the systems that enable life as we know it, but some advocates worry regulators are not paying enough attention to the potential downsides of a bustling space economy.
Ah, black holes—those distressing voids in space known for gobbling up everything they touch. Those side effects of the theory of relativity are now believed to be present at the core of every galaxy in the universe, and there’s still a lot we don’t know about them. One of those outstanding mysteries is radio wave […]
NorthStar Earth and Space, a startup building an in-situ space situational awareness (SSA) constellation out of its home base in Canada, announced yesterday that it clinched a CAD $20M ($14.7M) Series D round. Telesystem Space Inc., the Québec government, and the Luxembourg Future Fund participated.
A massive Moon economy, held together by a vast network of robots, is solidly in the works.
Orbit Fab, a US-based company building in-space refueling infrastructure (i.e., orbital gas stations), announced this morning that it is teaming up with the Aussie-based Space Machines Company (SMC) to attach more efficient docking hardware to SMC’s orbital transfer vehicle, which is expected to launch next year.
North and South Korea are using space as a vantage point to keep an eye on one another. On Nov. 21, North Korea successfully launched a military spy satellite to orbit on its third try, sparking international concern and escalating tension in the region. Now officials say that the satellite is up and running, collecting […]