Wildfires aren’t going away, but our ability to detect and track them — and maybe catch them early enough to prevent serious damage — is getting better. OroraTech is taking a space-based approach to “wildfire intelligence,” and just raised $ 25 million to grow its market and cover more of the Earth. The German startup […]
Impulse bets shuttling satellites between orbits is big business, and raises $150M to scale up
Impulse Space has raised a massive new tranche of funding as big-name investors bet that moving satellites around in orbit will soon be a high demand service. The startup, which was founded by Tom Mueller three years ago, announced the $ 150 million Series B round on Tuesday. Impulse is developing a line of orbital […]
Astranis unveils Omega ‘MicroGEO’ satellites for beaming dedicated broadband down from high orbit
Astranis has taken the wraps off a new generation of communications satellites that will serve broadband to customers on Earth from geostationary orbit, but faster and smaller than any comsat up there. They believe the future of orbital communications is not just in higher orbits, but in the possibility of customers — government and commercial […]
TechCrunch Space: Reusable rockets, reusable satellites
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Orbit Fab unveils $30K port to refuel satellites
Orbit Fab wants to build “gas stations” for satellites – which means it needs the gas cap, a mechanism for transferring propellant from an orbital tanker to the customer spacecraft. That docking mechanism, called RAFTI, is now flight qualified and on the market. The price tag for each port? Just $ 30,000. The Colorado-based startup […]