Macquarie Capital, NFX, Nebular, Y Combinator, Adjacent, 776 Ventures, Fuse Ventures, Manhattan West, and Monolith Power Systems participated in the Starcloud round.
Starcloud’s Series A included institutional participation from Macquarie Capital, NFX, Nebular, Y Combinator, Adjacent, Seven Seven Six, Fuse Ventures, Manhattan West, and Monolith Power Systems.
Starcloud’s investors include Macquarie Capital, NFX, Nebular, Y Combinator, Adjacent, 776 Ventures, Fuse Ventures, Manhattan West, Monolith Power Systems, and angel investor Dennis Muilenburg.
A monolith telescope from Lawrence Livermore is currently operational on the GEOStare2 mission that the lab launched in 2021 in partnership with Terran Orbital.
A gimballed monolith payload called the Stellar Occultation Hypertemporal Imaging Payload was deployed on the International Space Station and put into storage in late April 2024 after a year of operations.
Rocket Lab launched the Space Test Program’s Monolith satellite on Electron in 2021.
Rocket Lab launched the Space Test Program’s Monolith satellite on an Electron rocket in 2021.
Rocket Lab has a growing list of U.S. Space Force programs that includes launching the Space Test Program’s Monolith satellite on Electron in 2021.
Rocket Lab delivered the Air Force Research Laboratory–sponsored demonstration satellite Monolith on an Electron launch in 2021.
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored demonstration satellite called Monolith in 2021.
A U.S. Space Force satellite called Monolith launched from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand site in July 2021 instead of from Wallops.
The 2021-07-26 Electron launch placed Monolith, a smallsat developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, into orbit.
Rocket Lab’s Electron two stages performed normally and the kick stage deployed the Monolith satellite 52 minutes after liftoff into a 600-kilometer orbit at an inclination of 37 degrees.
Monolith will provide a platform to test future space protection capabilities.
Rocket Lab announced in December that the Monolith payload would be the first to launch from the new LC-2 pad and that the pad had been scheduled for use in the second quarter of 2020.
The Electron rocket tested at LC-2 will be used for the launch of Monolith, an Air Force Research Laboratory smallsat intended to demonstrate the ability to deploy a large-aperture payload for space weather monitoring.