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Launch Updates
The first ????Portuguese #cubesat , ISTSAT—developed by the students at ???? Instituto Superior Técnico —will monitor #aircrafts in remote areas and is scheduled for launch aboard Ariane 6 in Q4 2023. [Publico ] [??More on launch info ]
???? ISRO successfully launched its LVM3 from ???? Satish Dhawan Cell for Space Science Centre on March 25, carrying onboard 36 ???? Eutelsat OneWeb broadband satellites. [Space.com ] [??More on launch info ]
???? Rocket Lab successfully launched its “Beat Goes On” mission, with two Gen-2 ???? BlackSky #satellites via ???? Spaceflight Inc. , from ????New Zealand. [SpaceNews ] [??More on launch info ]
???? Relativity Space ’s #Terran1 lifted off from ????Florida’s Launch Complex, but the upper stage failed to reach #orbit . [SpaceflightNow ] [??More on launch info ]
Headlines
Aerostructures manufacturer ???? Spirit AeroSystems to partner with ???? Astraius to secure future #satellite launch capabilities from ???? Prestwick Spaceport . [SmallsatNews ]
???? Zentrum für Telematik e.V. GmbH (Center for Telematics), one of the European pioneers in the field of small satellite formations, has selected ???? HOSTmi GmbH—a Precious Payload company—to collaborate on an Earth-observation mission that involves the deployment of five 6U CubeSats flying in formation. [LinkedIn ]
???? SpaceX has set up a ????South Korean subsidiary, Starlink Korea LLC, to launch satellite internet services. The company seeks to launch its popular Starlink service in the country in Q2 2023. [KoreaHearld ]
????Boryung and ???? Axiom Space to launch a joint venture to focus on drug R&D and human survival in #space . [SpaceRadar ]
A ????UAE/????China agreement for launching the Rashid 2 rover on the latter’s Chang’e-7 lunar mission has fallen short, due to the U.S. export-control rules against China’s access to sensitive American-made components. Rashid 1 was launched last year, and is to be deposited on the surface of the Moon by the Japanese #lunar lander Hakuto-R. [SpaceNews ]
???? Rocket Lab ’s Neutron rocket set its launch prices at $50M for a 13,000 kg lift, in direct competition with ???? SpaceX ’s #Falcon9 . Neutron’s maiden launch is targeted for 2024. [CNBC ] [??More on launch info ]
???? Rocket Lab has also landed a contract from an undisclosed mega-constellation customer to manufacture two or three thousand reaction wheels per year. [TechCrunch ]
???? Techstars held a demo day for the first cohort of the ???? ????? ?????? ???????? | Saudi Space Agency Techstars Accelerator program. [LinkedIn ] [List of the startups ]?
Progress updates
???? Dawn Aerospace received New Zealand’s CAA certification for the campaign of its Mk-II Aurora spaceplane. The mission is to fly to space and back twice in one day to demonstrate reusability. The flights are set to start within the next month. [SatNews ]
???? Isar Aerospace ran 719 test sequences over the last 12 months on its Aquila engine, for use aboard its #Spectrum rocket planned to launch this year. [LinkedIn ] [??More on launch info ]
???? Firefly Aerospace completed the risk-reduction testing for its Miranda engine components—for use in ???? Northrop Grumman ’s Antares 330 rocket—for launch in Q2 2025. [FireflySpace ] [??More on launch info ]
Funding?
???? Magellan Aerospace Limited secures contract from the ????Canadian government for $15.8M to design, build, launch, and operate the Redwing ‘space domain awareness #microsatellite ’ for launch in 2026. The launch provider is not yet announced. [SatNow ]
The Saudi-owned ????Water and Electricity Holding Company and UAE’s ???? Alpha Dhabi Holding plan to invest in a multibillion-dollar funding round for ???? SpaceX , which will amount to about $140B. [YahooFinance ]
???? NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded more than $10.8M through its annual Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grants to 15 institutions, supporting R&D and exploration on the #Moon . [SatelliteEvolution ]
A six-company team led by ???? Arkisys consisting of ???? NovaWurks, Inc. , ???? Motiv Space Systems, Inc. , ????Qediq, ????iBoss, and ???? 美国德克萨斯A&M大学 won a $1.6M contract from the ????USSF. With an aim to demonstrate a three-axis stabilized satellite assembly using the robotic arm on the Arkisys Port Module, the mission is set for launch in 2024. [SpaceNews ].?
The ???? National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) awarded six companies—???? BlackSky Technologies , ????HyperSat, ???? Orbital Sidekick , ???? Pixxel , ???? Planet , and ???? Xplore —contracts worth about $300K each to study commercial hyperspectral imaging. [ViaSatellite ]
???? ABL Space Systems secures $60M in total from ????USSF and ???? United States Air Force (through a contract as well as the STRATFI agreement) for ground and flight demonstrations supporting tactically responsive space missions. [SpaceNews ]
???? Anywaves signs a contract with ???? Maxar Technologies to provide telemetry communication devices for the latter’s LEO smallsat bus product line by the end of 2023, for launch in 2025. [SpaceWatchGlobal ]
???? Equatorial Space Systems raises $1.5M for the development of its Dorado rocket, designed to provide low-cost space access for #payloads , for launch mid-2024. [SatelliteEvolution ] [??More on launch info ]
???? AVIO contracted by ???? Agenzia Spaziale Italiana for €55M for the design and development of its green, liquid-propellant engine, ‘Multi-Purpose Green Engine.’ The first version will be ready by Q4 2024, and the entire engine is to be completed within the first half of 2026. [LinkedIn ]
???? Virgin Orbit soon to close a $200M investment from venture capitalist Matthew Brown, after resuming operations on March 23 and recalling some of its employees. [CNBC ]
Companies and organizations highlighted in this market update: Instituto Superior Técnico, ISRO, OneWeb, Rocket Lab, BlackSky, Spaceflight Inc., Relativity Space, Spirit AeroSystems, Astraius, Prestwick Spaceport, Zentrum für Telematik e.V., HOSTmi, SpaceX, Axiom Space, Techstars, Dawn Aerospace, Isar Aerospace, Firefly Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Magellan Aerospace Limited, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Arkisys, NovaWurks, Inc., Motiv Space Systems, Inc., Texas A&M University, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), BlackSky Technologies, Orbital Sidekick, Pixxel, Xplore, ABL Space Systems, ANYWAVES, Maxar Technologies, Equatorial Space, AVIO, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, and more.