Tracking Satcom Startup Funding
Companies that can beam down fiber-like internet speeds graduate from the niche legacy satcom market to the generalized consumer broadband internet market.
Companies that can beam down fiber-like internet speeds graduate from the niche legacy satcom market to the generalized consumer broadband internet market.
The International Space Station cost $150B (inflation adj.) to build, whereas a commercial space station is expected to cost between $2B and $5B.
Hate it or love it, the first six months of the year have summed up investors’ love-hate relationship with the sector.
Over the past decade, the number of active satellites has increased by an order of magnitude.
If Q1 introduced the promise of Golden Dome, Q2 was the mad dash to cash in on the hype.
But there are enormous technical hurdles that need to be overcome. So, we spoke to Starcloud and Sophia Space, two startups building data centers in space, to understand the opportunity and separate the fact vs. fiction.
The Israel-Iran conflict has extended to space with exo-atmospheric interceptors, satellites providing critical comms, and remote sensing spacecraft beaming down images for intelligence gathering.