SWARM

Swarm’s FCC authorization request for the three SpaceBee satellites that launched on 2018-12-03 received FCC approval in September.

Swarm reported total fundraising of $28,000,000 including the $25,000,000 raised in January.

Swarm estimates launching a 1U cubesat costs between $80,000 and $100,000 and estimates its satellites cost about one quarter of that to launch.

Swarm filed an FCC license application on 2019-03-01 under Part 25 of Title 47 to offer service for 1 million devices throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, all U.S. territories and possessions, and all U.S. territorial waters.

Swarm launched four SpaceBee satellites without Federal Communications Commission approval in early 2018 and was fined $900,000.

Swarm raised $25,000,000 in a Series A investment round last year to build a 150-satellite constellation for low-cost communications to remote locations.

Swarm has raised more than $30,000,000 since forming in 2016.

Swarm signed an agreement on 2020-04-22 to launch 12 satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in December with a Vigoride in-space shuttle from Momentus to deploy them into specific orbital planes.

Swarm did not receive an FCC license to deploy and operate a 150-satellite constellation until October 2019, preventing commercial satellite launches before that date.

Swarm’s first 12 commercial satellites were launched on 2020-09-02 from French Guiana onboard a Vega rocket.

Swarm launched 36 SpaceBee satellites on Transporter-1 by working with two different payload aggregators.

Swarm plans to deploy a total of 150 commercial satellites by the end of 2021 to reduce latency to less than one minute.

Astra’s Rocket 3.3 launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska on 2022-03-15 and placed 16 Swarm satellites into orbit.