{"id":18154,"date":"2019-02-05T00:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/seattle-rideshare-space-company-wins-a-shout-out-for-disrupting-launch-industry\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T00:32:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:32:44","slug":"seattle-rideshare-space-company-wins-a-shout-out-for-disrupting-launch-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/seattle-rideshare-space-company-wins-a-shout-out-for-disrupting-launch-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle rideshare space company wins a shout-out for disrupting launch industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_478239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-478239\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-478239\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190204-spacex-630x516.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX SSO-A launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190204-spacex-630x516.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190204-spacex-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190204-spacex-1260x1033.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190204-spacex.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-478239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket sends 64 satellites into space from California\u2019s Vandenberg Air Force Base in December 2018 to kick off Spaceflight\u2019s SSO-A satellite rideshare mission. (SpaceX Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries has taken the spotlight in a research note from Morgan Stanley for disrupting the process of putting satellites in space&nbsp;\u2014 in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>The note, sent to the investment firm\u2019s clients last Friday by analyst Adam Jonas and his colleagues, pays tribute to Spaceflight Industries\u2019 two business lines. One subsidiary, Spaceflight, arranges for payloads to share rides on other people\u2019s rockets. The other subsidiary, BlackSky, offers satellite imagery from a range of spacecraft, soon to include its own Global constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight has played a part in the launch of 210 satellites over the course of the past six years, most notably last December when it bought out a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch to launch 64 satellites for dozens of customers. More typically, Spaceflight\u2019s customers piggyback as secondary payloads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, access to space has required purchasing an entire rocket,\u201d Jonas, Armintas Sinkevicius and George Dailey wrote in their note. \u201cSpaceflight is disrupting this model entirely, by offering ridesharing to satellites, as well as mission management \/ payload integration services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Airbus built satellite dispensers for SSO-A smallsat mission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G5Yel2IXvWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight has contracts to launch about 100 satellites in 2019, including three rideshare missions that will make use of Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron launch vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>One of those Electron launches will add to BlackSky\u2019s Earth-imaging satellite constellation. Right now, BlackSky has two of its Global satellites in low Earth orbit, with as many as six more to be launched in 2019 and more than 10 satellites on the agenda for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky won a $16.4 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in 2017 to develop a cloud-based geospatial intelligence platform suitable for government use, and the company says it plans to roll out a commercial satellite information service this year.<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky is working to incorporate Amazon Ground Station, a mission control architecture based on Amazon Web Services, into its ecosystem for the Global satellite constellation.&nbsp; Meanwhile, LeoStella, a joint venture between Spaceflight Industries and Europe\u2019s Thales Alenia Space, is building more BlackSky Global satellites at its&nbsp;factory in Tukwila, Wash.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mejs-offscreen\">Video Player<\/span><mediaelementwrapper id=\"video-478201-2\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-478201-2_html5\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spaceflightindustries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DGI_ShowReel_Final-1.mp4?_=2\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spaceflightindustries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DGI_ShowReel_Final-1.mp4?_=2\">https:\/\/www.spaceflightindustries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DGI_ShowReel_Final-1.mp4<\/video><\/mediaelementwrapper><span class=\"mejs-overlay-loading-bg-img\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media error: Format(s) not supported or source(s) not found<\/p>\n<p><span>Download File: https:\/\/www.spaceflightindustries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DGI_ShowReel_Final-1.mp4?_=2<\/span><button type=\"button\" aria-controls=\"mep_0\" title=\"Play\" aria-label=\"Play\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/button><span class=\"mejs-currenttime\">00:00<\/span><span class=\"mejs-time-total mejs-time-slider\" role=\"slider\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Time Slider\" aria-valuemin=\"0\" aria-valuemax=\"0\" aria-valuenow=\"0\" aria-valuetext=\"00:00\"><span class=\"mejs-time-buffering\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/span><span class=\"mejs-time-loaded\"><\/span><span class=\"mejs-time-current\"><\/span><span class=\"mejs-time-hovered no-hover\"><\/span><span class=\"mejs-time-handle\"><span class=\"mejs-time-handle-content\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mejs-time-float\"><span class=\"mejs-time-float-current\">00:00<\/span><span class=\"mejs-time-float-corner\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mejs-duration\">00:00<\/span><button type=\"button\" aria-controls=\"mep_0\" title=\"Mute\" aria-label=\"Mute\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/button><span class=\"mejs-offscreen\">Use Up\/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.<\/span><button type=\"button\" aria-controls=\"mep_0\" title=\"Fullscreen\" aria-label=\"Fullscreen\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/button><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nThales Alenia Space and its partner in the French-Italian Space Alliance, Telespazio, are among the biggest investors in Spaceflight Industries. Vulcan Capital, the investment firm created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. is also among the venture\u2019s backers.<\/p>\n<p>That raises a question about Morgan Stanley\u2019s note: How does the firm expect its clients to buy into Spaceflight Industries or other privately held space ventures?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the public investor feedback to our coverage of space has been \u2018interesting, but un-investable,\u2019 we have had tremendous interest from private space companies \/ investors,\u201d Jonas and his colleagues write. \u201cWe expect industry \/ technological milestones and capital formation will up the ante starting in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, stay tuned \u2026 and watch the skies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to CNBC\u2019s Michael Sheetz.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket sends 64 satellites into space from California\u2019s Vandenberg Air Force Base in December 2018 to kick off Spaceflight\u2019s SSO-A satellite rideshare mission. (SpaceX Photo) Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries has taken the spotlight in a research note from Morgan Stanley for disrupting the process of putting satellites in space&nbsp;\u2014 in a good way. 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