fbpx

Do rocket science. We’ll do the rest.

Precious Payload helps teams ship satellites to space.

Capella Space raises millions, Momentus gets FCC license, and China plans lunar constellation

Precious Payload Weekly Smallsat News: April 25 – May 1

 

Precious Payload sends you a weekly email filled with opportunities, tips, and resources to help you build your small satellite business.

Funding

🇺🇸Capella Space raises $97M to expand its seven-satellite SAR constellation, improve its Capella Console data platform, and increase personnel.

 

🇺🇸Halifax International Security Forum tries to raise $10 million through its initiative ‘Ukraine Victory Fund’ to create 🇺🇦Ukraine’s own imaging satellites constellation. Once the funds are obtained, 🇦🇷Satellogic will build the satellites.

 

Highlights

🇺🇸Momentus received the FCC license for the inaugural flight of the Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle on the upcoming 🇺🇸SpaceX Transporter-5 mission targeted for launch in May 2022.

 

Subscribe to our weekly market updates newsletter here

 

 

Headlines

 ​​🇺🇸Orbital Insight will use 🇦🇷Satellogic data to improve the revisit rate and reduce the cost of running analytics of its platform. [Source]

 

🇺🇸Planet will design and build two Carbon Mapper methane-monitoring satellites for 🇺🇸Advanced Cooling Technologies (ACT). [Source]

 

🇺🇸PredaSAR will launch the first satellite of its 96 radar constellation on 🇺🇸SpaceX’s Transporter 6 rideshare in October 2022. [Source]

 

🇺🇸Rocket Lab mission ‘There and Back Again’ was scrubbed due to weather troubles and is postponed to May 2. [Source]

 

🇺🇸NanoAvionics will build a satellite for 🇫🇷Promethee. ProtoMéthée-1 will be the first in its EO constellation to be launched by the end of 2023. [Source]

 

🇺🇸Cosmic Shielding Corporation plans a tech demo of the new small class vehicle, ForgeStar, by 🇬🇧Space Forge to be launched on 🇺🇸Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne from Spaceport Cornwall in the summer. [Source]

 

🇸🇪AAC Clyde will construct a ground station in 🇿🇦South Africa that can support several frequency bands up to S-band as well as in the amateur VHF band. [Source]

 

🇨🇳China will take the lead in demonstrating a lunar relay small satellite constellation in 2023 or 2024 and offer communication and navigation services for future lunar missions. [Source]

 

🇬🇧Inmarsat plans to offer its L-band constellation InRange telemetry for launch providers to track rockets in flight. [Source]

 

Check out Precious Payload Weekly Smallsat News: April 18 – April 24

NO COMMENTS

POST A COMMENT