Startups
Stories about the new players changing the space game.
Satellite IoT Firm Opens Portugal Office
Spain-based FOSSA Systems is expanding internationally for the first time with the opening of a new subsidiary in Portugal, the company announced Tuesday.
When Life Gives You Nuclear Waste, Make Batteries
Nuclear energy company Zeno Power announced a major step forward on Friday in its bid to provide atomic power for civil and commercial missions to deep space.
Impulse Space is Making a Very Big Kick Stage
The man who built the Falcon 9’s Merlin engine is back with a new vehicle that aims to make reaching geostationary orbits cheaper.
Exclusive: Apex Completes Ultra-Fast Satellite Qualification
LA-based satellite manufacturer Apex Space Systems has assembled, integrated, and tested its first satellite bus less than a year after beginning the design process.
NASA Funds Advanced Concepts
It’s the time of year when the out-there concepts aiming to push the boundaries of space exploration get a nod and a boost from the powers that be. Yesterday, NASA announced that it awarded 13 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NAIC) awards to individuals building unconventional, early-stage space technologies. “The daring missions NASA undertakes for the…
FOSSA Systems Closes Funding Round For IoT Birds
To connect land and ocean, startups are taking to the sky.
Quantum Reveals First Mission, Sentry
Quantum Space is building a mesh communications infrastructure that spans from LEO to cislunar space and beyond to meet growing data needs as humanity expands its reach into the cosmos. This morning, the company unveiled details of Sentry, its first mission. Sentry will launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare, currently slated for no earlier than March,…
Malt, Hops, Yeast—and Stardust
They say it’s 5 o’clock somewhere—and Beau Warren, founder of Species X Beer Project, is trying to make that somewhere space. Some background: Warren considers himself a long-time space lover who grew up visiting the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in DC. He founded Species X in September 2021, and is in the process of…
Neuraspace, Arcsec Team Up On Debris Tracking
Growing clutter around Earth has the potential to make satellite operations unsafe—but these two European companies think their tech can maintain order in orbit.
Payload Pioneers 2023
Meet our 2023 group of Payload Pioneers, 30 space innovators and disrupters under 30 years old.
Payload Pioneers 2023: Adam Kall
Adam Kall cofounded Kall Morris, Inc. in 2019 at the age of 23 because he knew the old way of cleaning up space wouldn’t cut it.
