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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NorthStar’s launch contract with Rocket Lab includes two additional missions of four satellites each intended to provide full commercial space situational awareness services designed to track objects as small as five centimeters in low Earth orbit and 0.4 m in geostationary orbit.
On 2023-12-06 NorthStar Earth and Space raised an additional $15,000,000 to support its first four satellites for tracking objects in orbit.
NorthStar Earth & Space Inc. closed a CA$20,000,000 Series D funding round on 2023-12-06.
Telesystem Space Inc. invested in NorthStar Earth & Space Inc.'s CA$20,000,000 Series D funding round.
NorthStar pivoted to Rocket Lab for a fall launch but faced a delay after Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket failed in September 2023 to deploy an imaging satellite for Capella Space.
NorthStar Earth & Space switched its planned launches to Rocket Lab after Virgin Orbit’s failure and expected its satellites to launch on Electron before the end of 2023.
NorthStar’s SSA services are scheduled to launch in 2023.
NorthStar’s space-based SSA services are designed to provide coverage across low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and cis-lunar space.
Virgin Orbit was scheduled to launch Spire’s first 16U cubesat for NorthStar Earth and Space in mid-2023 before Virgin Orbit collapsed into bankruptcy.
NorthStar Earth and Space signed a contract with Rocket Lab on 2024-06-22 to launch its first four space situational awareness satellites on an Electron this fall.
The partnership between NorthStar and SES aims to address urgent challenges posed by increasing space debris and orbital congestion.
The collaboration between NorthStar and SES aims to address challenges posed by increasing space debris and orbital congestion.
NorthStar and SES will leverage their complementary expertise, advanced technologies, and satellite networks to optimize SSA services.
NorthStar's SSA services combined with SES's extensive satellite fleet operations experience will deliver insights to enhance safe operations in space.
NorthStar Earth & Space and SES have signed an agreement to collaborate on next-generation commercial Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services.
NorthStar and SES plan to leverage their complementary expertise and satellite networks to optimize cutting-edge Space Situational Awareness services.
Stewart Bain, CEO of NorthStar, highlighted that the agreement represents a significant milestone in the advancement of commercial Space Situational Awareness services.
The collaboration between NorthStar and SES aims to significantly increase the precision of resident space object (RSO) tracking.
The agreement follows a previous announcement by NorthStar and SES to collaborate on creating a more sustainable space environment.
The agreement reinforces NorthStar and SES’s commitment to leading responsible practices in space.