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Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the vehicle that goes to space and comes back to […]

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The Exploration Company raises $450m to build a rocket engine

The Exploration Company has raised $450m. Most of it goes into something the company is not yet famous for. Not Nyx, the reusable capsule that has drawn the contracts and the SpaceX comparisons. An engine. Kate Duffy reported the round for Bloomberg. Founder and chief executive Hélène Huby told her why the balance falls that […]

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Stoke Space raises $1bn for a rocket that has never flown

Stoke Space has raised a billion dollars for a rocket that has never flown. The Washington company says the Series E takes its total funding to $2.3bn. It has not yet reached orbit once. Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round, according to Stoke’s announcement. General Innovation, Glade Brook Capital, US Innovation Technology, Washington […]

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Europe’s top carriers in talks to take on Starlink, Bloomberg reports

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone and Telefónica are in early talks to form a consortium that would bid for European satellite spectrum and offer calls, texts and data to ordinary phones from orbit, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The service would compete with Starlink on its home continent. Paula Doenecke, Gian Volpicelli and Clara Hernanz Lizarraga cited […]

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Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round

Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapore’s state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust. It is the largest single round any Indian space technology company […]

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Europe has its first commercial orbital rocket

German company Isar Aerospace has successfully launched Europe’s first entirely commercial orbital rocket. It attempted to achieve the feat last March, but that lasted all of 30 seconds before the vehicle crashed into the sea and exploded. This time the company managed to get the two-stage Spectrum into low Earth orbit from a Norwegian spaceport. […]

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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher

Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday night, the first commercial European company to do so and on only its second flight. It lands four days before Macron’s Paris space summit, which SpaceX and Blue Origin withdrew from last week. Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit […]

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Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later

SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White House pressure, though several are expected back in the city days later for World Space Business Week. Organisers describe the event as behind schedule and unclear in purpose, while Washington lobbies against the EU Space Act. Four American space […]

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