Space Impulse aims to lower costs and accelerate times to orbit by streamlining supply chain integration on a comprehensive, global Business-to-Business (B2B) platform. The platform is designed to address the challenges of complex, high-stakes sourcing, procurement, and fulfillment processes that ensure the movement of people and cargo safely along the path connecting Earth and space.…

Accion Systems Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder Natalya Bailey admitted to Via Satellite that strategic partner discussions began in March this year, as the company looked to execute the next phase of its growth plan. The company announced yesterday that Boeing, through its investment arm, Boeing HorizonX Ventures, would be investing in the company.…

The value of the U.S. space robotics market is expected to grow to $4.36 billion by 2023. Growing importance of on-orbit satellite servicing, on-orbit manufacturing, assembly in space, and focus of government agencies and commercial entities on space robotic solutions are driving the space robotics market. The space robotics market is estimated to grow from $2.88…

Boeing is investing in Accion Systems, a startup pioneering scalable electric propulsion technology to expand satellite capabilities in and beyond Earth's orbit. Accion was founded in 2014 by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers, and has received annual contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for the past three years. Accion's new Tiled Ionic Liquid…