The UK Government has launched the first funding call for its C-LEO programme – to help boost the country’s satellite communications sector – which was announced in the recent Spring Budget. There is £60 million of funding being made available over the next four years for satellite constellation-related ideas. Awards of up to £20 million per project will be funded ...
Helen Weedon, MD of the Satcoms Innovation Group, considers how the satcom industry can better engage with young people about the opportunities that exist. Recruitment within the satcom industry is a pain point for many operators, even for the biggest household names. Not enough young people are choosing to study STEM subjects and this skills shortage is already being felt ...
Simera Sense, an optical payload specialist for small satellites, has raised €13.5 million in its first funding round. The funding will be used to further develop its camera product range, increase its production capacity, and accelerate its on-board processing capabilities, said the company. Additional production sites were also being planned in Europe. Specifically, it will fast-track the development of higher-resolution ...
LeoLabs, a Space Situational Awareness specialist – think collision avoidance and space traffic management – has raised an additional $29 million in financing. The Californian company, which highlights its use of “AI-powered insights”, says the investment will enable it to “scale up its insight delivery by further investing in advanced end-user applications and partner integrations.” “With the unprecedented growth of ...
Quindar, the maker of a platform to monitor and automate satellite operations, has closed an oversubscribed $6 million seed extension round. The funding was led by Fuse with continuing investment from Y-Combinator and Funders Club. “This infusion of funding will propel our mission to manage satellites as efficiently as servers by utilizing AI-driven insights and operations to revolutionize the ...
A Space Enterprise Lab (SEL) has opened at Adastral Park in Suffolk, the latest addition to the Satellite Applications Catapult’s network of such facilities. The idea is for the SEL to provide a range of capabilities or services for local space sector companies, enabling them to work together more effectively. Part of a national linked network of 13 such facilities, ...
Impulse Space – a Californian in-space transportation startup – has unveiled design specifications for its Helios high performance “kick stage” vehicle. It is designed to take payloads of over 5 tons directly from Low Earth Orbit (LEO, 300km from earth) to Geostationary Orbit (GEO). This would be in less than 24 hours says the company. Helios “The Helios vehicle unlocks ...
D-Orbit, the Italian space logistics and transportation specialist, has raised €100m from a Series C funding round, raising about €100m. The company described it as one of the largest ever for a European Space Tech company, following a successful 2023 that saw revenue growth and the winning of €60m in European government and space agency contracts. It also completed an ...
The UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult (SAC) has announced the winners of its Environmental Space Living Lab Competition. The byline for the competition was Revolutionising water quality and resource efficiency in Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Environmental Land Management with Space Technology. And the two winning companies are: Freeup and CSEQ Technologies. They will each receive support of up to £15,000 from the ...
After Nasa’s successful DART mission, to make a deflecting impact on an asteroid, comes the Milani nanosatellite, which is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) follow-up Hera mission… Milani has successfully passed its Test Readiness Review, Tyvak International has announced. The craft represents two firsts: it will be the first to orbit an asteroid, Dimorphos; and it will be ...
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