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Joined August 2020
We are happy to announce that we have raised $650,000 in seed funding from @winklevosscap, @aweissman, @sammcingvale, @litcapital, @juliadewahl and a variety of investors. Thread 👇.
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RT @itsmoislam: Chris Kemp (@Kemp) took @Astra public in 2021 with a bold vision: low-cost rockets launching daily, bringing sovereign spac….
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.@CisLunarInd announced $1M in seed funding from the Colorado ONE Fund today. The investment will help CisLunar hire more engineers and scale the production of its power processing units (PPUs), CEO Gary Calnan told Payload.
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.@NorthwoodSpace, the El Segundo, CA-based satellite ground segment startup, announced yesterday that its production terminal—called Portal—passed its first operational tests ahead of deployment later this year.
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Veterans of @SpaceX's hiring team have launched a new, hard tech venture fund with a unique approach to working with portfolio companies: They help find the right talent to boost early-stage startups.
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.@EnduroSat, the Bulgarian satellite manufacturer and service provider, has announced the appointment of Rusty Thomas to lead its US business.
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RT @tectonicdefense: From @PortalSpaceSys's Jeff Thornburg, here's what people get wrong about NASA and SpaceX. NASA can't fail, but SpaceX….
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.@Esa selected the winners of the first stage of its European Launcher Challenge (ELC). Each launcher now stands the chance to win a maximum of €169M ($198.3M).
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.@K2SpaceCo, the CA-based startup building low-cost, high-power satellites optimized for MEO, has spent the last year buying down risk and burning up fuel in preparation for its first customer mission in February 2026.
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If Monopoly made a rocket themed board game, @Exolaunch would have a hotel on every space. The Berlin-based launch integrator announced a partnership with @orbexspace to sell satellite operators a ride on the UK launcher’s Prime and Proxima rockets.
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.@AstSpacemobile and its long-time investor, @vodafone, deepened their partnership this week with the formation of a new joint venture—SatCo—in Luxembourg.
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RT @PortalSpaceSys: 🖖 “We couldn’t make Star Trek happen if we didn’t innovate the engines that push humanity around.”. Portal CEO @JeffTho….
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The future of the US lunar return hinges on @SpaceX and @blueorigin’s development of landers that can bring astronauts from the Orion spacecraft down to the surface of the Moon.
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.@NOAA's FY 2026 budget proposal, released yesterday, includes plans to gut the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and terminate federal funding for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).
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