NorthStar Earth & Space is a commercial company focused on space-based Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services. They are building a constellation of satellites, called SKYLARK network, to monitor objects in near-Earth orbits and provide services like space object tracking, collision prediction, and navigation assistance. NorthStar partners with organizations like Telespazio, SES, Spire Global, and ExoAnalytic Solutions, and receives funding from Telesystem Space, Luxembourg Future Fund, and the Canadian government. The company aims to deliver precise and timely information for Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management applications.
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The three Skylark satellites ordered constitute the beginning of a constellation of at least 12 satellites that NorthStar plans to launch by 2024.
NorthStar raised $65,000,000 in 2018.
NorthStar plans to use observations from the Skylark satellites to provide customers with space situational awareness services.
Thales Alenia Space will build the first three Skylark satellites in conjunction with LeoStella, NorthStar’s smallsat manufacturing joint venture with BlackSky.
NorthStar expects to win business from both commercial and government organizations for its SSA services.
NorthStar Earth and Space’s satellites will carry hyperspectral and infrared cameras for Earth observation and optical cameras for monitoring orbits including low, medium, and geostationary orbits.
ExoAnalytic Solutions announced a partnership on 2019-04-01 with NorthStar Earth and Space to support NorthStar’s development of a constellation of 40 satellites that will track objects in space.
NorthStar Earth and Space raised 52 million Canadian dollars to fund a 40-satellite constellation that would monitor the Earth and objects in space.
NorthStar Earth and Space is preparing satellites equipped with hyperspectral and infrared cameras pointed at Earth and optical cameras pointed at space.
NorthStar Earth and Space plans to create around 400 direct high-skill jobs and around 1,200 indirect jobs for big data and information analytics.
The Government of Quebec invested 13 million Canadian dollars in NorthStar Earth and Space.
The Government of Canada invested 13 million Canadian dollars in NorthStar Earth and Space.
NorthStar Earth and Space plans to establish several AGILE Centers (Applications for Global Innovation and Leadership) around the world with the first opening in Montreal, Canada in 2021.
The new funding puts NorthStar Earth and Space on a path to start service in 2021, about a year later than initially planned.
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains announced on 2018-11-15 that the Canadian government awarded 13 million Canadian dollars to NorthStar Earth and Space Inc. of Montreal.
NorthStar Earth and Space Inc. is working on improving imagery from low Earth orbit satellites and providing a space situational awareness service.