Funding for newspace companies continued to flow this month, boosting the prospects for three budding space ventures. Axelspace On 13 May, Japanese imaging firm Axelspace announced a US$23.8m investment from a group of venture capital companies and investment funds,...
Two of the three upcoming German small launcher developers: Isar Aerospace and Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), have been the recipients of launch contracts (or bookings) in recent weeks. Both of these start-ups are developing new small launch vehicles, Spectrum (Isar)...
European satellite operator Eutelsat has announced its intention to invest US$550 million in OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation developer. Eutelsat, which primarily operates a fleet of 27 GEO satellites, has been developing a LEO Internet of Things...
ORBCOMM announced on 8 April that it had entered into an agreement to be bought by fellow American company GI Partners. GI, a private investment firm based in California, is looking to expand its “data infrastructure” portfolio. The terms of the...
Lockheed Martin’s primary interest in large rocket launches is via its half share (with Boeing) in the United Launch Alliance (ULA), but it is striking out with a different partner, the small launch vehicle provider ABL Space Systems. Lockheed Martin has contracted...
On 25 March 2021 BlackSky Global, through its launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., signed a multi-launch contract with Rocket Lab covering nine of its Earth observation satellites. As per the contract Rocket Lab will conduct at least five Electron missions...
