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Launch Date
12/29/2024
Launch Site
CC LC40
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
On 2018-06-14, Astranis planned to equip its MicroGEO spacecraft with Bradford’s high-performance green ECAPS thrusters.
In March, Astranis raised $18,000,000 in Series A funding.
Astranis raised $18,000,000 earlier 2018 and is using the funding to build up the company.
Astranis plans to develop small geostationary-orbit communications satellites.
Astranis is building a 300-kilogram geostationary satellite scheduled for launch in 2020 with a to-be-announced launch provider.
Astranis in San Francisco, GapSat in Hong Kong, and Ovzon in Sweden are planning to launch small GEO satellites in 2020 or 2021.
Astranis is building a 300-kilogram small geostationary satellite to operate for a customer in Alaska.
SpaceX’s contract to launch the Astranis satellite followed SpaceX losing a 2021 mission to launch the 1,500-kilogram Ovzon-3 satellite on Falcon Heavy.
Astranis plans to provide internet links via satellite with satellites weighing around 300 kg.
Terran Orbital, Astranis, Maxar Technologies, and Saturn Satellite Networks are building geostationary communications satellites in the few-hundred-kilogram to ~2,000-kilogram range and have secured orders within the last 12 months.
The first Astranis satellite for Pacific Dataport is expected to provide 7.5 gigabits per second of capacity after launching late 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 to geosynchronous orbit.
TriplePoint Capital is providing a $50,000,000 debt facility to Astranis.
Astranis is building a 350-kilogram geostationary communications satellite slated to launch and begin operations by the end of the year.
Astranis raised $90,000,000 in a debt and equity round led by Venrock and TriplePoint Capital on 2020-02-13.
Astranis has raised a total of $108,000,000 to date.
Pacific Dataport signed in January 2019 to lease 7.5 gigabits per second of capacity on Astranis’s satellite to provide internet service to Alaskans.
Venrock led a $40,000,000 Series B equity round for Astranis with participation from Fifty Years, Refactor Capital, Y Combinator, and Andreessen Horowitz.
The Astranis satellite is slated to launch in the final quarter of 2020 as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Astranis and Tyvak are building GEO-bound satellites weighing approximately 250 to 350 kg.
Astranis raised $90,000,000 in debt and equity as it prepared to launch its first satellite.