Focus: Europe
March 28, 2023
Isar Aerospace, one of the new launch companies out of Europe, has secured another $165 million in financing, as it gets ready for its first launch later this year. The company announced the successful Series C funding round, March 28. The round is backed by 7-Industries Holding, Bayern Kapital via its Scale Up Fund Bavaria,…
March 28, 2023
Thales Alenia Space has won a contract to build six satellites for the Italian Earth observation (EO) constellation IRIDE. The contract, awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA), is for a batch of six small satellites with synthetic aperture radars (SAR) and one satellite based on optical technology. Thales announced the deal on Monday. The…
March 24, 2023
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has completed the launch of a new mission to research space weather. The company announced on March 23 that it launched a sounding rocket BROR was launched from the Esrange Space Center in Sweden to a suborbital altitude of 240 km where it created an auroral light show on the evening…
March 22, 2023
A trio of Dutch organizations are working together to target the laser communications market in the satellite industry. Technology developers Demcon and VDL Group formed a joint venture this month called FSO Instruments to produce laser satellite communication technology. This builds on technology developed by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, known as TNO. …