{"id":57300,"date":"2021-06-11T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellite-propulsion-startup-phase-four-closes-series-b-investment-round-2\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:53:34","slug":"satellite-propulsion-startup-phase-four-closes-series-b-investment-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellite-propulsion-startup-phase-four-closes-series-b-investment-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Propulsion Startup Phase Four Closes Series B Investment Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>California-based startup <strong>Phase Four<\/strong> closed a $26 million Series B investment round on June 11 to advance the development of its Radio-Frequency Thruster (RFT) and plasma propulsion systems.<\/p>\n<p>Phase Four was founded in 2015 to provide advanced propulsion systems to satellite constellations. The company designed its RFT with an architecture that aims to lower the cost of manufacturing by using miniaturized power electronics, and being \u201cpropellant agnostic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Global venture capital firm <strong>New Science Ventures LLC (NSV)<\/strong> led the Series B round. NSV manages an $800 million portfolio and operates a Life Sciences incubator in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited about our partnership with Phase Four,\u201d said NSV Managing Partner, Somu Subramaniam. \u201cThe global space economy has outstanding long-term growth potential. Phase Four has the management team, core technology set and product strategy to build a leadership position in the in-space propulsion sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phase Four introduced its Maxwell plasma propulsion engine in 2019 and has since launched several of these systems aboard commercial small satellites. In the Series B announcement, the company said it has secured multiple government contracts in 2021, including a contract with the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> to adapt the Maxwell engine to utilize iodine, replacing legacy electric propulsion propellants in high-performance commercial and defense applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen demand for the Maxwell engine exceed our current production capability,\u201d Phase Four CEO Beau Jarvis said in a statement. \u201cThis capital infusion will enable us to rapidly scale our production capacity and accelerate our development of new Maxwell variants including the iodine-fueled Maxwell engine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California-based startup Phase Four closed a $26 million Series B investment round on June 11 to advance the development of its Radio-Frequency Thruster (RFT) and plasma propulsion systems. Phase Four was founded in 2015 to provide advanced propulsion systems to satellite constellations. The company designed its RFT with an architecture that aims to lower the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}