#SeoTips Elon Musk occasionally posts clips of his video game plays to his social media platform X — but a recent clip includes background audio of a SpaceX engineer telling Musk how the most recent Starship flight test was “one second away” from a...
Saturday, October 26, 2024
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SpaceX will attempt historic catch of returning Starship booster on Sunday #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Starship is ready to fly again — and for the first time, SpaceX is going to try to bring the booster back to the launch site to catch it with a pair of oversized “chopsticks.” SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch w...
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Argo Space’s plan to power orbital tugs with Moon water pulls in $7.9M #Ecommerce
#SeoTips There are many hypotheses about what capabilities will need to come online for the growing space industry to flourish, but two of the biggest concern in-space mobility and in-space refueling. To have a fully independent space economy, prop...
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Boeing’s Starliner performs flawless touchdown without on-board crew, program’s future remains uncertain #Ecommerce
#SeoTips After months of delays and uncertainty, Boeing’s Starliner capsule has returned from the International Space Station, touching down in White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico, just after midnight on Saturday. The capsule returned autonomousl...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Defcon AI closes $44M seed round to solve a problem of ‘maximum complexity’: Military logistics #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The U.S. Department of Defense is a mammoth organization. It not only employs millions of service members and hundreds of thousands of civilian employees, but also has the world’s largest military budget that’s used to buy and maintain mor...
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Rosotics wants to manufacture massive orbital shipyards using 3D printing #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Mesa, Arizona-based Rosotics has kept a low profile. From the startup’s website, one would think they are solely focused on selling large metal 3D printers to aerospace and defense customers. For the past three years, the company’s been ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Apex’s off-the-shelf satellite bus business attracts $95M in new funding #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Fresh off the success of its first mission, satellite manufacturer Apex has closed $95 million in new capital to scale its operations. The Los Angeles-based startup successfully launched and commissioned its first spacecraft, a model call...
Thursday, June 6, 2024
DARPA and Slingshot build system to detect ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ adversary satellites #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The number of satellites on low Earth orbit is poised to explode over the coming years as more mega-constellations come online, and it will create new opportunities for bad actors to hide weapons or spy satellites amongst their fleet. Tha...
Friday, May 3, 2024
NASA is expanding its Wallops Island facility to support three times as many launches #Ecommerce
#SeoTips NASA is kicking off a formal environmental assessment of its facilities on Wallops Island, Virginia, to increase the number of authorized rocket launches at the site by almost 200%, according to slides and recordings of an April 29 interna...
Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite — a critical technology validation for the company, potentially opening the door to connecting millions more devices anywher...
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Danti’s natural language search engine for Earth data soars with $5M in new funding #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Danti, an artificial intelligence company building a superpower search engine for Earth data, has brought on prominent defensive tech investor Shield Capital as it looks to scale its technology for government customers. Founded by Jesse Ka...
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Orbex’s new funding may accelerate its Prime microlauncher into orbit #Ecommerce
#SeoTips UK-based small launch developer Orbex got another boost from Scotland’s national bank and other investors as it gears up for its first orbital launch, though that mission still does not have a set date. Founded in 2015, Orbex is one of a h...
Friday, March 15, 2024
SpaceX makes significant progress with third Starship orbital test flight #Ecommerce
#SeoTips SpaceX is continuing to make progress on the development of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, with the third test flight Thursday accomplishing considerably more than the previous two tests. The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket lifted ...
Monday, March 11, 2024
Stell helps engineers focus on building, not paperwork #Ecommerce
#SeoTips “Hard tech” is the latest buzz in venture capital, but all hard tech industries still rely on software infrastructure to ensure machines run properly, parts are shipped on time, and that they are built to very exact requirements. Stell, a ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Satellite servicing tech startup, led by former head of Ukraine’s space agency, lands $4M #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Kurs Orbital, a startup founded by Ukrainian space industry veterans, has closed a new tranche of funding to accelerate the commercialization of its satellite servicing technology. The two-year-old company aims to unlock a new era for huma...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
SpaceX will launch the Starlab private space station using Starship #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Starlab, the private space station being developed by Voyager Space and Airbus, will go to orbit onboard a SpaceX Starship rocket before the decade is out, the companies announced Wednesday. Starlab is one of a handful of private space sta...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Impulse Space wants to open up far away orbits with Helios kick stage #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Impulse Space revealed more details today about its next product, a high-energy kick stage called Helios, that could make getting to geosynchronous orbit cheaper than ever before n history. The vast majority of spacecraft are launched to l...
Friday, December 29, 2023
Shield AI expands massive Series F with another $300M in equity, debt, scaling valuation to $2.8B #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Defense tech startup Shield AI has expanded its latest funding round with another $300 million in equity and debt, bringing its total Series F to $500 million, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. This total amount reflects $200 million in ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
OurSky lands $9.5M seed to build out developer platform for space data #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A developer platform for the…sky? That’s the vision of OurSky, a startup founded last year that’s aiming to make space observational data more accessible via a software platform and global telescope network. The company announced that it c...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
SPAC delays $350M merger with stratospheric balloon startup World View – again #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The special-purpose acquisition company poised to take stratospheric balloon startup World View public is now under official deadline as shareholders voted to again push back the deadline by which it must complete the deal. World View, whi...