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Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn ahead of June Vikram-1 launch

GIC and BlackRock-managed funds anchor a fresh round that more than doubles the company’s 2023 valuation. The round is timed to the planned orbital launch of Vikram-1 from Sriharikota, the first private Indian rocket to attempt the milestone. Skyroot Aerospace, the Hyderabad-based private launch-vehicle developer, has crossed into unicorn territory with a fresh round backed […]

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From Alan Shepard to Artemis, celebrating 65 years of Americans in space

On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in bacon, scrambled eggs, and orange juice), strapped into the Freedom 7 rocket, and blasted off into space, becoming the first American astronaut to do so. Shepard’s historic flight – and the first crewed […]

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Space weather could cost the satellite industry $40 billion in a single storm. A 15-person startup is building the forecast.

There are more than 8,000 active satellites in orbit. By 2030, there will be more than 25,000. A single geomagnetic storm, the kind the sun produces several hundred times during a solar maximum, could cost the satellite industry $40 billion. In February 2022, a moderate storm knocked 40 freshly launched Starlink satellites out of orbit, […]

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Planet Labs is not selling satellite images. It is selling a subscription to watch the entire planet change in real time.

At 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time on 3 May, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 45 satellites, three of which belonged to Planet Labs. Pelicans 7, 8, and 9 are the latest additions to Planet’s next-generation constellation of high-resolution Earth observation satellites, bringing the Pelican fleet to nine spacecraft. Each […]

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SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion on Starship and is racing to make rocketry resemble an airline schedule

SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its Starship megarocket and is pushing for a launch cadence that would make space access resemble an airline schedule rather than a government programme, Reuters reported on Friday, drawing on the company’s confidential pre-IPO prospectus. The figure quantifies, for the first time, the cumulative cost of the […]

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True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense

True Anomaly’s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles can manoeuvre near other satellites in orbit for inspection, space situational awareness, and, under Golden Dome, potential interception of ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Total funding now exceeds $1 billion. True Anomaly, the Colorado-based space defense startup that builds autonomous orbital vehicles and supporting software for US national security missions, […]

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