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Sky and Space Global will sign a three-year launch services and consulting agreement with Virgin Orbit for A$1,000,000 per year.
Virgin Orbit plans to invest in Sky and Space Global and partner with it on launch and satellite services.
Sky and Space Global launched three prototype satellites in 2017.
Sky and Space Global anticipated launching service-grade satellites in early 2021 but had not raised the funding to do so.
Sky and Space Global was seeking to raise $14,200,000 to build and launch an initial eight satellites.
In April, Sky and Space Global needed $5,200,000 to keep its planned constellation of 200 cubesats on track for a first launch in 2020.
The first launch of Sky and Space Global’s 200-cubesat constellation was delayed from the middle of the year to early 2020.
Sky and Space Global launched three prototype satellites on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in 2017 to test technology and services planned for the operational constellation.
Sky and Space Global launched three prototype cubesats in June 2017 on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
D-Orbit’s InOrbit Now service won a contract last year with Sky and Space Global to launch an unspecified number of Pearl cubesats to provide communications services.