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Happy Sunday Space Enthusiasts!
Please read below -- and check out Space Impulse as well -- to review the most interesting space industry and science news that showcase how scientists and engineers are leveraging the power and resources of space to solve problems on Earth.
From agriculture, the insurance sector, through maritime and infrastructure, Earth observation satellites even help mitigate problems arising from climate change on our planet. Space-based research in microgravity environments improve healthcare, while numerous scientific experiments and technical demonstrations give us deeper understanding of the world surrounding us as well as making everyday life easier for us.
Machina Labs has closed a Series B investment in the amount of US $32 million. The round was co-led by new investor?NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, and existing investor?Innovation Endeavors, with contributions from existing and other new investors. The investment will be used to meet accelerating customer demand, to further intensify research initiatives, and to continue delivering innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations.
The MIURA 1 suborbital launcher achieves all technical objectives for their successful maiden flight. The Spanish company thus consolidates its strong leadership position in the global space race. This milestone provides Spain with the opportunity for direct access to space and to generate a national and European strategic capability. MIURA 1 has recovery and reuse requirements that only three companies in the space industry have achieved.
Intesa Sanpaolo invests in SpaceX. The move is in line with the Bank’s 2022-2025 Business Plan, in which innovation represents one of the most relevant aspects for value creation.
A group of space companies, research centres and universities working with the European Space Agency (ESA), has established a series of specifications on how exactly satellites should use light to talk to one another – and to link to their ground stations. ESA is helping to establish a set of specifications for ultra-high-speed optical links. Xage’s zero trust-based cybersecurity mesh provides unique protection to U.S. critical infrastructure against emerging cyber challenges.
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Auriga Space announces an initial US $5 million funding round to deploy electromagnetic technology for space launch. With this initial funding, Auriga is advancing prototypes and expanding their Los Angeles facilities. The company’s investors include Trucks Venture Capital, Seraphim Space, Possible Ventures, Unlock Ventures, DNX Ventures, Monte Carlo Capital, Vermilion Ventures, Heuristic Capital and Syndicate 708.
Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock. The goal of the OSIRIS-REx sample collection was 60 grams of asteroid material. For the next two years, the mission’s science team will continue characterizing the samples and conduct the analysis needed to meet the mission’s science goals.
ICEYE has been chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its Civil Security from Space Programme (CSS), aiming to transform disaster and crisis management using space-based solutions. The partnership, spanning three years, will focus on the “Disaster Management from Space” initiative, leveraging ICEYE’s fleet to deliver advanced natural catastrophe monitoring services. The CSS programme fosters innovative concepts and solutions through collaboration between civil security stakeholders, participating states, and consortiums of users, service providers, and the space industry.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation of rocky planets. Psyche successfully launched 10:19 a.m. EDT Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. By August 2029, the spacecraft will begin to orbit the 173-mile-wide (279-kilometer-wide) asteroid – the only metal-class asteroid ever to be explored.
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