Finance

HawkEye 360 Inc. said on July 13 that it has raised $58 million in a Series D-1 round of funding from venture capital and private equity firms, including BlackRock, Manhattan Venture Partners, Insight Partners, NightDragon, Strategic Development Fund, Razor’s Edge, Alumni Ventures, and Adage Capital. HawkEye 360 has seven clusters of radio frequency (RF)-sensing satellites on orbit. Each cluster has three satellites. Last...

This article is part of a series in which Via Satellite interviews people in the industry at different points of their careers, with a focus on career decisions-making, and what they are looking for in terms of developing a career in the satellite and space industry.  Yahsat has risen over the last two decades to...

Ground software as a service company Atlas Space Operations named John Williams as its new CEO, and opened a government-focused subsidiary, Freedom Space Technologies, the company announced this week.  Williams joins Atlas Space Operations from Viasat where he served as vice president of Real-Time Earth, Viasat’s ground station as a service business line, which Atlas...

Thales Alenia Space has a new initiative to support startups with a new industry accelerator called the Space Business Catalyst, announced July 4. There are two locations, based in Toulouse, France, and Turin, Italy, already hosting 10 startups from around the world.  Thales has a history of working with startups and has open collaborations with...

Fleet Space has appointed Matteo Genna as its new CTO, the company announced July 5. Genna has been in the space industry for around 30 years. After gaining his PhD in Physics from University of California, Berkeley, Genna joined SSL (now part of Maxar), where he led teams designing and building high-power Geostationary Orbit (GEO)...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has granted Rivada Space Networks request to waive the requirement to put 10% of its constellation into orbit this year.  The decision came from the ITU’s Radio Regulations Board, Rivada announced Wednesday.  The ITU Radio Regulations Board determined that Rivada can proceed to its second deployment milestone to place 144...

Steve Collar has been the face of SES and O3b for just over a decade. However, in mid-June, Collar announced he was stepping down from the role as SES’s CEO after just over five years in the role. He had previously been the CEO of O3b for just over six years. Soon after, SES announced...

Space computing company Ramon.Space has raised $26 million from Ingrasys, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, Abu Dhabi-based strategic investment firm Strategic Development Fund, and existing investors Grove Ventures, Deep Insight and UMC Capital.  Ramon.Space announced the new funding on June 28 and said the funding will help it commercialize its computing platform for space...

Airmo, another climate and space-based start-up, has closed a pre-seed funding round of 5.2 million euros ($5.69 million). The company announced the funding round June 27. This pre-seed round will enable Airmo to launch its first out of 12 satellites into orbit as its aims to revolutionize transparency on the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and...

Within an impressively short three years, SpaceX has launched more than 4,000 satellites for its Starlink satellite network, blanketing Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) with a constellation that now serves 1.5 million-plus customers worldwide — and counting. This feverish growth is kindling fresh competition among satellite operators, as Starlink eyes markets traditionally held by incumbents. Yet a slew of...