Stories on space business, including company updates, funding announcements, and contract awards.
UC Berkeley has proposed construction of a new $2B facility to boost innovation in space technologies, including astronautics, quantum computing, and climate science initiatives. The university and real-estate developer SKS Partners are eyeing a 36-acre plot at NASA Ames in Silicon Valley for the new complex, dubbed the Berkeley Space Center. The center would play […]
Urban Sky, a stratospheric balloon imaging startup, announced a $9.75M Series A round yesterday to build out its sensor tech and expand commercial imaging capabilities to 15+ states.
Ligado Networks, a VA-based satellite business, filed a lawsuit against the US government last week, claiming the DoD violated its spectrum riots and illegally thwarted its 5G program without compensation.
Meet our 2023 group of Payload Pioneers, 30 space innovators and disrupters under 30 years old.
As a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, Emma Louden is working at the intersection of astrophysics and the aerospace industry.
When Zoe Ingram left her career at LinkedIn and Google to work in aerospace, she encountered an outdated, tedious technological experience the consumer tech world had long ago left behind.
Stephanie DelPozzo is making a name for herself in the business of space as an associate specializing in aerospace and defense at Nextfed, an M&A firm.
Owen Marr, a Blue Origin systems engineer working on New Shepard, is driven to make space accessible to all.
Victoria Carter-Cortez, a space strategy consultant at the professional services firm PwC, spent her undergraduate years as an astrophysics student.
Mapping the Earth from space provides obvious benefits for defense and navigation, but Jennifer Horowitz, Maxar’s senior technical strategic partnerships lead, believes the technology has much broader implications.
If there’s anyone who understands that the space industry is more than *just one thing,* it’s Josh Ingersoll.
Data collected in orbit is only as good as the systems to quickly downlink the information to Earth. That’s where Apoorva Nori comes in as a technical product manager at Microsoft’s Azure Space, working to connect satellite operators to the cloud.
