The Sidewinder terminals ordered by Gilat are set to be delivered within six months.

Stellar Blu developed the Sidewinder terminal prior to becoming part of Gilat Satellite Networks.

Ron Levin is President of Gilat’s Commercial Division.

The Sidewinder terminal supports in-flight connectivity programs for SES and Panasonic.

On Jan. 27, Gilat Satellite Networks received a multimillion-dollar order from a large avionics company for Sidewinder terminals for in-flight connectivity.

Sidewinder is an electronically steered antenna compatible with Geostationary Orbit satellites and the Eutelsat OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit constellation.

SBI Group participated as an investor in Interstellar Technologies' Series F funding round.

Interstellar Technologies’ Series F round brought the company’s cumulative funding to ¥44.6 billion.

Interstellar Technologies obtained ¥1.8 billion in loan facilities with stock acquisition rights from the Japan Finance Corporation.

Research and development for Interstellar Technologies’ satellite project is being advanced through commissioned projects from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Space Strategy Fund implemented by JAXA.

Interstellar Technologies secured ¥5.3 billion in debt financing from financial institutions as part of its fundraising activities.

SBI Group made follow-on investments in Interstellar Technologies for the third consecutive funding round.

Interstellar Technologies established a manufacturing-focused business alliance with Toyota Motor Corporation.

The funds raised in the Series F round will be used primarily for development of ZERO’s first launch vehicle, strengthening the manufacturing system toward commercialization, and research and development of satellites.

Interstellar Technologies is developing the orbital launch vehicle ZERO and was selected for Phase 3 of MEXT’s Small Business Innovation Research program.

Interstellar Technologies’ Series F round represents one of the largest fundraising efforts to date by a privately held space startup in Japan.

Existing shareholders participated in Interstellar Technologies' Series F funding round alongside previously announced investors.

Interstellar Technologies conducted secondary transactions with existing shareholders to optimize its capital structure.

Interstellar Technologies closed a ¥20.1 billion Series F funding round through a third-party allotment of new shares.

Interstellar Technologies is pursuing a vertically integrated business combining launch vehicle services and satellite communications.

SMBC Edge participated as an investor in Interstellar Technologies' Series F funding round.

B Dash Ventures selected Interstellar Technologies as its first investment in the space sector.

Interstellar Technologies has signed launch contracts with a total of eight companies, organizations, and universities for ZERO’s first launch, including one company conducting a demonstration of a satellite separation system.

Woven by Toyota led a prior funding round that raised ¥14.8 billion through a third-party allotment of preferred shares in an up-round.

Interstellar Technologies is focusing its satellite business on communications satellites to leverage frequent-launch requirements with its own launch vehicle.

Woven by Toyota is advancing efforts to establish a robust production system to support Interstellar Technologies’ manufacturing needs.

Nomura Real Estate Development participated as an investor in Interstellar Technologies' Series F funding round.

B Dash Venture participated as an investor in Interstellar Technologies' Series F funding round.

Interstellar Technologies was chosen as one of three companies to pass the latest stage-gate review for MEXT’s SBIR Phase 3 selection for ZERO.

SMBC Edge is providing Interstellar Technologies with hands-on support spanning capital, business development, and human capital.

Nomura Securities provided advisory support in the Series F round and introduced several potential investors.

Seven domestic and international satellites have been confirmed as customers for ZERO’s first launch.

TeraWave plans to use Q/V frequency bands in the approximate range of 33 to 75 GHz.

TeraWave combines a low layer for reduced latency with a MEO layer linked by optical inter-satellite communications.

The LEO segment of TeraWave targets up to 144 Gbps per customer using Q/V bands.

TeraWave’s optical inter-satellite links are designed to support on the order of 6 Tbps of aggregated capacity.

TeraWave will deploy 5,280 satellites in LEO and 128 satellites in MEO.

Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos.

TeraWave constellation deployment will begin in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Blue Origin will launch TeraWave, a satellite communications network intended to offer high-connectivity services to companies, data centers, and governments.

The TeraWave architecture will consist of 5,408 satellites optically interconnected across low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO).

TeraWave’s design emphasizes the network as infrastructure rather than focusing on end users, in contrast to LEO initiatives oriented primarily to residential and large-scale enterprise access such as Amazon Leo.

TeraWave will provide symmetric and point-to-point connectivity.

José Luis Hernández is the Subdirector General of Telecommunications and Workplace at the Madrid City Hall.

Blue Origin positions symmetric upstream and downstream capacity in TeraWave as a way to eliminate bottlenecks when transmitting real-time information.

The researchers created a deep learning algorithm to analyze about 100,000 high-resolution images from the MESSENGER spacecraft.

Lineae predominantly occur on sun-facing slopes of young impact craters, indicating solar radiation likely plays an important role in their formation.

The study on Mercury’s lineae was published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

Discoveries of volcanic craters and hollows by the MESSENGER mission indicate Mercury has experienced relatively recent geological activity.

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System by both mass and diameter.