The final bids are in and Blue Origin has raised US$28 million for a seat on the first crewed flight of its New Shepard vehicle. The name of the winner has yet to be released, but he or she will join Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and his younger brother, Mark, on the...
Kepler Communications announced the closure of a Series B round of financing valued at US$60 million on 9 June. This amount takes the total funding raised by Kepler to over US$90 million. Kepler is a newspace company building a CubeSat constellation to provide...
Prospective American launch provider Relativity Space has announced that it has completed a Series E funding round raising US$650 million. This follows its previous sizeable Series D funding round which raised US$500 million in November last year. The latest round was...
Newspace company Astra, which is developing a small launch vehicle, has revealed that it intends to purchase fellow-newspace firm and developer of satellite electric propulsion, Apollo Fusion. The announcement made on 7 June outlines Astra’s intention to acquire...
CesiumAstro announced on 25 May that it would be launching its first mission, dubbed “Cesium Mission 1”, to LEO alongside the NASA Landsat 9 satellite in September this year. Cesium Mission 1 will consist of two 6U-CubeSats, built in-house, and are...
Insurance broker Arthur J Gallagher & Co is once again set to be a beneficiary of another firm’s mega takeover. In a re-run of its successful 2019 acquisition of part of JLT speciality – with the main deal going to Marsh – Gallagher has struck a US$3.57 billion...
