Finance

New European startup UNIO has hired Frederic C. Baker as CTO. He will lead the architecture build-out of the company’s commercial satellite constellation focused on the automotive and mobility sector....

Singapore-based startup Zero-Error Systems (ZES) has closed an oversubscribed $7.5M Series A funding round, with participation from Airbus Ventures. The company specializes in semiconductor solutions for space and power management...

Firefly Aerospace is acquiring smallsat rideshare company Spaceflight for an undisclosed amount, and will end Spaceflight’s rideshare business after its current contracts. The company announced the deal last week on...

Kerry Wisnosky is joining Quantum Space as the startup’s president and CEO, the company announced Friday. He is now responsible for Quantum Space’s strategic direction moving forward as the company...

SES is on the hunt for a new CEO after the company announced that CEO Steve Collar is stepping down. Collar had been in the role just over five years....

Earth imagery and data company Planet Labs (Planet) saw its fiscal first-quarter 2024 (Q1 2024) revenue total jump 31% year-over-year (YoY) and crossed a threshold of 900 global data subscribers,...

York Space Systems has completed the acquisition of Emergent Space Technologies, a developer of mission software and Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) solutions for multi-spacecraft missions headquartered in Maryland with...

Melissa Quinn, the former head of Spaceport Cornwall, has joined spaceflight safety data and tracking company Slingshot Aerospace as its new general manager of Seradata, the launch and satellite database...

HAMBURG, GERMANY — Executives from the aviation and satellite industries at the Passenger Experience Conference in Hamburg agreed that airlines need to invest in enhancing the passenger experience, as airlines...

Hyperspectral Earth-imaging technology startup Pixxel raised $36 million in its Series B funding round and added Google to its list of investors, the company announced Thursday. Some of Pixxel’s existing...