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 ALBATOR consortium includes five partners: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, NorthStar Earth & Space, and OsmosX.
Beth Michelson is a Partner with Cartesian Capital Group, a New York City-based global private equity firm that invested in NorthStar Earth & Space in December 2022.
Spire is under contract to build an initial 12 space situational awareness cubesats for Canada’s NorthStar Earth and Space to track objects from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit to improve STM models.
Rocket Lab launched the first four of NorthStar’s initial Spire-built satellites at the end of January, each the size of a 16-unit (16U) cubesat.
Rocket Lab launched the company’s first Electron mission for 2024 on a space-junk focused mission for Spire Global and NorthStar Earth & Space.
NorthStar raised $15,000,000 in December and has raised $105,000,000 overall.
The four NorthStar satellites are equipped with sensors capable of tracking objects as small as 0.4 m across in geostationary orbit.
NorthStar had planned to launch the four satellites on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne system before Virgin Orbit filed for Chapter 11 in April 2023 and was later liquidated.
The Electron deployed four NorthStar satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit at 530 km.
NorthStar plans to launch the next eight satellites on two future Electron missions by 2026.
NorthStar signed a launch contract with Rocket Lab for a fall 2023 launch that was delayed after an Electron launch failure in September 2023.
Rocket Lab launched the first four satellites for NorthStar Earth and Space on 2025-01-31.
On 2024-01-31, Rocket Lab launched the 'Four Of A Kind' mission, its first Electron mission of 2024, for Spire Global and NorthStar from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 19:34 NZDT / 06:34 UTC.
Exolaunch will deploy four NorthStar Earth & Space satellites built by Spire Global on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle.
NorthStar Earth & Space’s satellites are built and operated by Spire Global.
NorthStar Earth & Space’s satellites are built and operated by Spire Global.
NorthStar’s satellites are built and operated by Spire Global.
NorthStar was second in line to launch on Rocket Lab’s manifest before the September 2023 Electron failure.
NorthStar Earth and Space has raised a total of 143 million Canadian dollars ($105,000,000) for building out a space situational awareness business following its Series D funding round.