Starburst is a global aerospace accelerator that connects startups with corporations, investors, and governments. Functioning as an innovation catalyst, Starburst provides startups with access to corporate stakeholders to help them scale their businesses and secure funding. They operate globally with offices in locations such as Los Angeles, Paris, Munich, Singapore, and Tel Aviv. Starburst also offers strategy consulting and venture investment services to help aerospace and defense stakeholders innovate. Key focus areas include aerospace, aviation, and defense.
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Starburst’s 13-week accelerator program provides mentorship from Starburst’s global network of industry leaders and support with technology development, customer discovery, business development, fundraising, and preparation for or facilitation of on-orbit research.
Starburst’s accelerator program helps startups scale in aviation, space, and defense and provides access to corporate stakeholders to support startups in pursuing their first $1,000,000+ contract.
Starburst Aerospace receives shares in participating companies worth $120,000 for its accelerator program.
Space Flight Laboratory will provide the spacecraft platforms, perform system integration, and conduct system testing for the StarBurst and Aspera missions.
StarBurst is led by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center with Daniel Kocevski serving as principal investigator.
Space Flight Laboratory will support the launch, commissioning, and operation of StarBurst and Aspera, which are tentatively scheduled for launch in 2025.
Space Flight Laboratory will develop the StarBurst platform on an ESPA-Grande variant of its scalable DAUNTLESS bus.
NASA partnered with Starburst Aerospace in San Francisco, California to launch the Entrepreneur’s Challenge.
In May, Starburst Aerospace was in talks to raise $50,000,000 to invest in space startups.
StarBurst will focus on neutron star research using a 250 kg smallsat built by Space Flight Laboratory.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center contracted Space Flight Laboratory to develop a smallsat platform for the StarBurst astrophysics mission.
Techstars and Starburst Aerospace established a new space accelerator in 2019.
Starburst Aerospace and the University of California, Los Angeles won a $1,400,000 government grant last year that was matched with private funds to create an aerospace innovation hub.
Momentus and some other Starburst portfolio companies that are not space-related are on course to raise significant sums 2021 by going public through mergers with special purpose acquisition companies.
Starburst Aerospace announced the launch of operations in Spain on 2025-04-20.
Starburst Aerospace aims to raise local funds of $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 to invest in more early-stage companies it is working with.
After its debut fund fell through, Starburst Aerospace developed a business as an aerospace and defense accelerator that acquires equity in startups in exchange for consulting services and connections with governments and established companies.
Starburst Aerospace plans to raise a $50,000,000 fund in 2025 to invest in space startups.
NASA announced concept studies for three new smallsat missions, including Pandora, StarBurst, and Aspera.
Starburst named the U.S. and U.K. companies that will be part of the first Allied Defence Accelerator on 2020-10-27 at SpaceCom 2020.