SpaceChain is a space-as-a-service provider focused on integrating space and fintech technologies to build a decentralized satellite infrastructure. The company aims to provide secure and accessible blockchain solutions in space, including space-based key management systems and multisignature wallets. SpaceChain partners with organizations like Spire Global and Cloud Constellation Corporation to leverage satellite platforms for applications like secure cryptocurrency transactions and decentralized data storage. Associated keywords include blockchain, fintech, satellite infrastructure, and space security.
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SpaceChain has launched its second Ethereum Virtual Machine payload into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station for installation via the SpaceX Dragon 2 spacecraft.
SpaceChain will continue to invest in research and development to reduce space node testing time, expand application scenarios, and enable more blockchain companies to use space as a platform for business innovation.
SpaceChain installed the Velas space node onto a satellite designed and manufactured by Spire Global.
SpaceChain completed testing of the space node it created for Velas Network AG.
The 2022-01-13 mission integrated Velas, described as an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain and open-source platform for decentralized applications, with SpaceChain’s payload.
SpaceChain's UAE office is incorporated and operated under the legal entity SpaceChain MENA Ltd.
SpaceChain MENA Ltd will plan and develop integrated space-blockchain projects and initiatives across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
SpaceChain opened a UAE office in Abu Dhabi to expand into the Middle East space sector.
SpaceChain MENA will collaborate with start-ups and organizations in the space, blockchain, and fintech sectors to develop services including e-wallets, a space commodities exchange, micro-geoservices linking Earth observation providers with user communities, and decentralized finance applications.
SpaceChain launched a blockchain-enabled payload integrated with a space node created for Velas Network AG into space onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The partnership between SpaceChain and Spire Global that enabled the mission was first announced in September 2021.
Velas will leverage space-grade infrastructure designed and deployed by SpaceChain to advance its decentralized projects and applications.
Spire plans to launch a SpaceChain payload on a new satellite equipped with Spire’s Sabertooth supercomputer.
Spire Global and SpaceChain are partnering to launch a mission to demonstrate blockchain computation in space.
Spire will further build out SpaceChain’s capabilities via a payload on a new satellite expected to be launched later 2021.
Spire and SpaceChain announced their partnership on 2021-09-28.
SpaceChain is working with Addvalue Innovation and Alba Orbital to design a decentralized satellite infrastructure under a 199,580 kg ($596,000) grant awarded in 2020 by Enterprise Singapore and Innovate UK.
Spire plans to launch a SpaceChain payload on a new satellite later 2021.
SpaceChain delivered the completed blockchain hardware to Nanoracks upon completion of the work for Nexus.
Nexus commissioned SpaceChain in mid-2020 to build an on-orbit software space node.