Astrobotic’s Griffin lander had no active primary payload manifest after NASA canceled the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover mission.

Voyager Technologies did not disclose any purchase price, earnout structure, or integration timeline for the Astrobotic acquisition.

ElevationSpace’s in-space research and return platforms are central to its planned in-orbit transportation network.

ElevationSpace’s Series B investors included SPARX Asset Management and Beyond Next Ventures.

AOBA’s demo mission will carry experimental payloads, conduct experiments, and return to Earth.

AOBA is expected to be ready to launch later this year.

ElevationSpace is seeking to expand into European and U.S. markets.

ElevationSpace raised a $40 million Series B and brought its total funding to $63.5 million.

AOBA is Japan’s first private reentry satellite and the first model of the ELS-R series.

ELS-R is an uncrewed platform for in-orbit research, development, and manufacturing with Earth-return capabilities.

Axiom Space agreed to explore reentry and recovery services with ElevationSpace for commercial space stations.

ElevationSpace is a Japanese satellite reentry startup.

ElevationSpace is developing its spacecraft in collaboration with JAXA and Tohoku University.

Redwire signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate microgravity and biopharmaceutical hardware with ElevationSpace’s demonstration platform.

SPARX Asset Management and Beyond Next Ventures also invested in ElevationSpace’s Series A.

Isar Aerospace will launch AOBA on its Spectrum rocket.

ElevationSpace’s Series B also included corporate investors Toyoda Gosei and Dai Nippon Printing.

AOBA will be Isar Aerospace’s first Asian customer launch.

ElevationSpace is targeting a 2029 demonstration of ELS-RS on the International Space Station.

ELS-RS is an uncrewed recovery service designed for high-frequency payload returns from crewed space stations.

ElevationSpace participates as a collaborating organization in activities related to fundamental technologies for the safety of crewed space transportation systems.

ElevationSpace closed a $40 million Series B financing round.

ElevationSpace is developing space-to-Earth transport services and space-environment utilization platforms.

ElevationSpace has raised $63.5 million in total since its founding.

ElevationSpace is collaborating with the Japanese LEO observatory Shachu to develop infrastructure for low Earth orbit activities in the post-ISS era.

ElevationSpace is developing the ELS-RS platform for high-frequency cargo return services from space stations to Earth.

ElevationSpace has formed a partnership with Axiom Space to evaluate high-frequency return and recovery services.

ElevationSpace plans to integrate bio-pharmaceutical technologies developed by Redwire into its platform.

AOBA is ElevationSpace’s first private atmospheric reentry satellite and the first model in the ELS-R family.

ElevationSpace was selected for a Japanese Space Strategy Fund program focused on high-frequency cargo recovery technologies.

ElevationSpace completed the final assembly phase of AOBA.

ElevationSpace is developing the ELS-R satellite series for space-environment utilization and recovery activities.

The $40 million Series B round is the largest financing round in ElevationSpace’s history.

ElevationSpace has grown to more than 80 employees.

ESA’s Small Missions for Exploration program is designed to advance European capabilities for lunar and deep-space missions through targeted, lower-cost studies.

Moonraker will focus on the lunar South Pole and permanently shadowed regions.

The Moonraker mission aims to deploy a LiDAR-equipped spacecraft into lunar orbit.

The European Space Agency selected NUVIEW’s Moonraker mission for a Phase A study under ESA’s Small Missions for Exploration – Destination the Moon program.

NUVIEW serves as prime contractor for the Moonraker mission.

Moonraker will downlink LiDAR data directly to Earth for conversion into three-dimensional Digital Elevation Models.

The Moonraker Digital Elevation Models are intended to support landing site identification, hazard assessment, and surface planning for future robotic and human missions.

NUVIEW leads an international consortium developing space-based LiDAR for lunar applications.

Leonardo DiCaprio is an investor in NUVIEW.

Northwood Space’s most recent Prism deployment was unboxed and turned on within three and a half hours.

Northwood Space will target 100 Gbps in high-demand locations by the end of 2027.

Northwood Space aims to have aggregate throughput capacity of more than 22 Tbps across its network by 2028.

Northwood Space has a $100 million Series B financing round that was announced in January.

Northwood Space aims to more than double its link capacity again by the end of 2027.

By the end of 2026, Northwood Space plans to operate more than 12 ground stations.

Prism is intended to help Northwood Space significantly increase its ground station network capacity over the coming years.