True Anomaly Hires Sarah Walter As COO
“I am a big proponent of go fast, fail, learn and repeat, and continue to get better.”
Business
Stories on space business, including company updates, funding announcements, and contract awards.
EchoStar Stock Explodes After AT&T License Deal
The AT&T deal has other competitors, like T-Mobile and Starlink, hungry for their own piece of EchoStar’s pool of underused spectrum licenses.
Mynaric Charts Path to Rocket Lab, Investors Left Behind
Mynaric completed its financial restructuring this week—reigniting the possibility of an acquisition by Rocket Lab, but leaving investors holding the bag.
Space Manufacturers Fuel Capex With Private Credit
“Investors don’t usually want to see their dollars sunk into capex costs, right?”
SEOPS Adds Service To Find Sats After Launch
The partnership with Digantara, an Indian space surveillance startup, aims to get customers in contact with their sat within three hours of launch.
Voyager Acquires a Sharper AI-ISR Game
The acquisition will extend Voyager’s capabilities in global maritime awareness, threat tracking, and SAR analytics.
Metop-SG Sats Spread the Wealth Across Europe
The MetOp second-gen series includes tech developed by the French space agency (CNES), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Leonardo, RUAG, OHB, and countless smaller parts and systems suppliers across the continent.
Blue Canyon’s Got A New Bus For Golden Dome
“This product will support more mass and more power, so that a lot of those defense payloads can be carried on the spacecraft.”
No Smoke, Just Signals: OroraTech USA, Opterrix Launch Fire Intelligence Feed
The US subsidiary of the German satellite startup inked a partnership with risk intelligence platform Opterrix to bring near real-time wildfire data into insurers’ risk platforms. The first pilot customer? USAA.
Suds and Soil: Two Brewing Experiments to Launch to ISS
Many good ideas are hatched over a beer. One is heading to space this afternoon.
Space42 Lands $695.5M Loan for Follow-on GEO Sats
Space42 has a lot of irons in the fire.
Global Space Economy Tops $600B For The First Time
The global space economy grew nearly 8% in 2024 to $613B, according to a report released Tuesday by the Space Foundation.