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Pale Blue aims to provide microwave cathode technology propulsion systems to the small satellite market to improve mission success rates and operational efficiency.
Pale Blue was approved to transition to Phase 2 of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation Creation Promotion Project (SBIR Phase 3) by the stage gate review committee.
Pale Blue Inc. announced that its project focused on technology development and demonstration necessary for space debris reduction was approved to move to Phase 2 of the Small Business Innovation Research program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Pale Blue Inc. completed a Series B funding round of approximately 2,500,000,000 JPY (approx. $16,000,000).
Pale Blue successfully used a Resistojet in orbit for the first time in March 2023 by using jets of steam to move a 6U cubesat.
Pale Blue raised $7,500,000 in October in loans and the first phase of Series B venture financing.
Pale Blue tested its Resistojet thruster in orbit for the first time in March 2023 using jets of steam to move a 6U cubesat called Star Sphere.
Pale Blue Inc. signed a contract with TOKYO KEIKI INC. to manufacture and assemble hardware subsystems of its prototype mass-production propulsion system.
Pale Blue aims to launch mass production within a few years while still deciding on the facility location and production capacity.
Pale Blue raised $4,100,000 in a Series A round in 2021.
Pale Blue raised $7,500,000 to establish a mass production facility for its water vapor propulsion systems.
Pale Blue is developing an Ion Hall-effect thruster that it expects to reach orbit for the first time by 2025.
On 2023-08-07, Pale Blue secured a contract to supply water vapor thrusters to Yonsei University in South Korea.
Pale Blue’s Ion Hall-effect thruster is likely to reach orbit for the first time in 2024 or 2025.