Esper Satellites Signs Bus Contract With Loft Orbital
The partnership will send next-generation hyperspectral imagers to orbit as hosted payloads aboard Loft’s Yet Another Mission (YAM) satellites beginning in early 2026.
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Accelerator Announces First European Space Resources Cohort
Interestingly, for an accelerator shooting for the Moon, one-third of this first cohort operates largely outside the space industry.
Inversion Raises $44M Series A To Build Its Arc
Inversion plans to use these funds to scale up its operations to deliver a full-scale reentry vehicle on orbit by 2026.
General Galactic Raises $8M Seed For Clean Fuel Tech
General Galactic wants to change the way the world thinks about the green transition, by using pollutants themselves as a renewable fuel source.
DoD’s Big Bet on 1 Hour Space Cargo Delivery
If the last decade marked a revolution in sending mass to space, the next decade will center on bringing mass back to Earth.
Maine’s Plan to Build a Sustainable Space Industry
“Maine is more than lobsters and blueberries.”
Bridenstine Kicks Off Phase Four Investment Round
“As the NASA administrator, I had a lot of challenges with traditional Hall thrusters,” Bridenstine told Payload. “When I came across this company that’s doing electric propulsion, they can provide as much thrust and as much efficiency as a traditional hull thruster, but do it with a variety of different fuels, I got excited about it.”
Kall Morris Inc. Begins ISS Residency
The system will prove out technology that could eventually grab objects on orbit, allowing KMI to move debris out of congested orbital lanes or relocate satellites that don’t have enough juice to move themselves.
Charter’s Plan to Fix Space Insurance
Charter estimates that approximately 97% of the ~10,500 active satellites on orbit are uninsured. Tens of billions of dollars worth of satellite technology is flying around without a financial safety net.
Matter Intelligence Wants Data That’s Never Been Seen Before
“Hyperspectral is such a buzz word.”