Tag: Ground
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Dhruva Space Expands Indigenous Space Capabilities with Modular Satellite Platforms
Dhruva Space, a Hyderabad-based full-stack space engineering company, is advancing a portfolio of modular satellite platforms designed to support commercial, scientific and defense missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond. The company’s satellite architecture spans spacecraft ranging from CubeSats to Microsats, with platform masses extending from less than 1 kg to 500 kg, enabling…
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Impulse Space Raises $500 Million Series D Funding Round
Impulse Space, the in-space mobility leader, announced it has raised $500 million in Series D funding. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, bringing the company’s total capital raised to over $1 billion. The funding will support hiring and manufacturing growth as the company scales its effort to build in-space mobility infrastructure:…
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PLD Space Invests €35 Million in Guiana Space Centre Launch Complex
In the context of the Choose France event, held in Versailles, PLD Space, an international space transportation company, has announced a €35 million investment in the development and deployment of its Launch Complex at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou (French Guiana) over the 2025-2026 period. This investment positions PLD Space as the first…
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SEOPS Announces Waymaker Rideshare Program with Inaugural Falcon 9 Mission
During the SmallSat Europe conference being held in Amsterdam, space access provider SEOPS announced its Waymaker program, the company’s dedicated rideshare missions to low Earth orbit (LEO). Waymaker is designed to provide customers with SEOPS-managed dedicated rideshare capacity to LEO through standardized capacity portions, defined interfaces, and a managed mission process. SEOPS has signed a…
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Space Solar and Lonestar to Host Sovereign Data on Orbital Platforms
Space Solar, the UK company building space-based solar power and the large in-space assembled power structures the orbital economy will run on, and Lonestar, the US pioneer that has already stored data on the Moon, have announced their intent to cooperate on hosting Lonestar’s StarVault data storage modules aboard Space Solar spacecraft. The partnership pulls together…
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ICEYE Secures €28.3 Million R&D Grant from Business Finland
ICEYE, the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space, announced that Business Finland, Finland’s public innovation agency, has approved a €28.3 million continuation grant, the final tranche of a previously announced major R&D investment decision. As European nations accelerate investment in sovereign defence and national resilience from border and maritime security to disaster response the…
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AeroVironment to Accelerate Production of Next-Generation Freedom Eagle-1 Interceptor
AeroVironment, a global defense technology leader, announced an additional government investment of $20.2 million in AV’s Huntsville, Alabama facility to increase quantities of Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and accelerate future Full-Rate Production (FRP) of the Next-Generation Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Missile (NGCM), known as Freedom Eagle-1 (FE-1). The expanded site will serve as the system-level integration,…
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Observable Space Secures $94 Million U.S Space Force IDIQ Contract
Observable Space, a full-stack, vertically-integrated space technology company advancing laser communications, ground-based optical sensing, and in-space systems, announced a $94 million sole-sourced Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) award from the U.S Space Force. The award is part of the Department of War’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program to augment existing Space…
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Orbit Fab and Thales Alenia Space Partner on Satellite Refuelling Program
Orbit Fab and Thales Alenia Space are partnering on REEF, a project supported by the UK Space Agency, to design new satellite refuelling architecture that aims to enhance the sustainability and resilience of space operations. Teams from Orbit Fab and Thales Alenia Space in the UK will combine their expertise to collaborate on REEF (Refuellable…
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Archangel Lightworks’ Optical Ground Station Proves Capability in Successful Trials
Archangel Lightworks, the laser communications company, has successfully completed field trials of the TERRA-M, the world’s smallest deployable operational optical ground station, proving its capability. The news was warmly welcomed by Liz Lloyd, the UK Space Minister, and the trials were funded by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. Data was securely and rapidly…