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Rocket Lab Raises $75 Million for Production of Electron Rocket
March 21, 2017
Rocket Lab announced closing a Series D financing round of $75 million. Data Collective led the round, with additional investment from Promus Ventures and an undisclosed investor, and with renewed participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and K1W1. The closure of the round brings the total funding Rocket Lab has received to date to $148 million,...
Finance 
Market Innovation Driving CubeSats into the Mainstream
February 27, 2017
Some of the world’s most exciting space developments are occurring in a small form factor: CubeSats. Backed by strong commercial funding and more launch availability, CubeSats are no longer just the domain of academic learning experiments; they are becoming core to government and commercial missions. The era of CubeSat 2.0 has arrived.
Technology 
Satellite TODAY 02-21-2017
February 17, 2017
Daily News Feed %%PLUGIN_WEB_VERSION: 351737-web version%% Steve Oldham, SSL, on the Future of Satellite Servicing Via Satellite sat down with Oldham to talk about satellite servicing and how SSL plans to position itself in this market in the coming months… Advertise with us: Comtech Receives $1.4 Million Contract for Satcom Uplink Subsystems Comtech Telecommunications...
Rocket Lab Delivers Electron to Launch Complex
February 17, 2017
Rocket Lab has delivered its first Electron vehicle to Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, marking the beginning of pre-flight checkouts. The rocket was trucked to the Mahia Peninsula from Rocket Lab’s Auckland facility. Over the coming weeks, a series of tests and checkouts will be conducted at the site before the rocket, named It’s a...
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Google Lunar XPRIZE Winners Announced
January 26, 2017
[Via Satellite 01-26-2017] XPRIZE and Google have announced that a $1 million diversity prize will be split among 16 Google Lunar XPRIZE teams, and that five teams have verified launch contracts and are moving forward to the final phase of the competition to land an unmanned spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. “XPRIZE and...
Technology 
Generation Orbit Talks Plans for Weekly Launches, Hypersonic Travel
December 02, 2016
[Via Satellite 11-30-2016] Generation Orbit Launch Services is making progress with its air launch system that aims to enable nanosatellite launches nearly as often as an aircraft flies. Generation Orbit is preparing for wind-tunnel and hot-fire testing of its GOLauncher 1 (GO1), the first test vehicle in its development of a series of air-launched rocket...
Finance 
Spire CEO: We are Launching Satellites Every Month
October 26, 2016
[Via Satellite 10-26-2016] Satellite data company Spire is vying to get as many of its satellites in orbit as possible after launch delays curbed the company’s ability to reach a desired constellation of 20 satellites by the end of last year. Today Spire has 12 satellites in orbit, and is aggressively pushing in hopes of...
Finance 
ICYMI 10-01-2016
September 30, 2016
Via Satellite Via Satellite | Top Stories for the week of September 30, 2016 Receive alerts | Media Kit | Contact Top Stories for the week of September 30, 2016 September 28, 2016 Russia’s S7 Group Buys Sea Launch S7 Group, the largest private aviation holding company in Russia, has agreed to purchase Sea Launch,...
Satellite TODAY 09-28-2016
September 27, 2016
Daily News Feed %%PLUGIN_WEB_VERSION: 206548-web version%% 5 Takeaways from this Year’s World Satellite Business Week In a year of landing rockets, mega-High Throughput Satellite (HTS) ideas and renewed faith in Non-Geosynchronous (NGSO) orbits, 2016 has been exceptionally newsworthy. Even more news came out during Euroconsult’s… Advertise with us: Rocket Lab Completes Its First Orbital...
Rocket Lab Completes Its First Orbital Launch Complex
September 27, 2016
[Via Satellite 09-27-2016] Rocket Lab has announced the completion of its first orbital launch complex, Launch Complex 1. Located on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula, Launch Complex 1 is designed to enable a high frequency of space. The facility will be the primary site for launches of Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle, designed to lift a 150...
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