Open Cosmos, founded in 2015, is a space company that designs, builds, launches, and operates satellites, with a focus on simplifying access to space and democratizing space data. It provides end-to-end mission services, including satellite assembly, launch campaigns, in-orbit operations, and data delivery, enabling organizations to utilize satellite imagery for Earth observation and address global challenges. Open Cosmos works with partners like the European Space Agency (ESA) and collaborates with organizations such as Space Park Leicester to expand its capabilities and data exploitation reach. The company's key services include its OpenOrbit mission management, OpenConstellation infrastructure for data sharing, and DataCosmos platform for AI-powered data analysis.
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Open Cosmos raised $50,000,000 in Series B funding from impact investors to accelerate international growth and expand its product offering.
Open Cosmos will build the UK pathfinder satellite at its headquarters at Harwell Space Campus in Oxfordshire.
Open Cosmos was involved in the MANTIS satellite mission launched two weeks before 22 November 2023, which was developed with support from the European Space Agency and co-funded by UKSA.
Open Cosmos is expanding its industrial R&D and manufacturing capability at its Harwell campus site.
Open Cosmos offers AI-powered data analysis from multiple satellite sources and analytic partners via its DataCosmos platform.
Open Cosmos doubled its revenues year-on-year prior to the Series B funding round and that Series B was the first external funding raised since 2018.
Open Cosmos raised $50,000,000 in Series B funding in September 2023, marking the largest funding round for a UK space tech company in 2023.
Open Cosmos was awarded a £5 million project from the UK government’s Space Clusters and Infrastructure Fund (SCIF) on 22 November 2023.
Open Cosmos was selected by the National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) to develop a data platform for transforming geospatial data distribution in Peru.
Open Cosmos raised $50,000,000 in Series B funding to accelerate international growth and expand its product offering.
Open Cosmos added two satellite missions to its OpenConstellation that successfully launched on 11 November 2023.
Open Cosmos will build the UK pathfinder satellite at its headquarters on Harwell Space Campus in Oxfordshire.
MANTIS and PLATERO will join MENUT as part of the OpenConstellation global shared Earth Observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.
Open Cosmos’ satellites MANTIS and PLATERO reached orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
OpenConstellation is a global, shared Earth observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.
MANTIS and PLATERO will join the satellite MENUT, which launched earlier in the year, as part of the OpenConstellation shared Earth observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.
Open Cosmos’ satellites MANTIS and PLATERO reached orbit following the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Once operational, MANTIS will join OpenConstellation, a global shared Earth observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.
Open Cosmos plans to place MANTIS into orbit in 2023.
Open Cosmos is the prime contractor for MANTIS and will oversee end-to-end space mission services including satellite design, payload integration, build, launch, operations, and data dissemination via the DataCosmos platform.