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Astranis has started building four very small geostationary orbit satellites.
Astranis plans to launch the Arcturus satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in early 2022.
Astranis will use some Series C funding to build a new satellite production facility designed to produce dozens and then hundreds of satellites.
Astranis is entering the final assembly phase for the first in its line of very small geostationary orbit satellites for launch in early 2022.
Astranis raised $250,000,000 in a Series C funding round on 2021-04-14 that valued the company at $1,400,000,000.
Astranis’s Alaska satellite is slated to ship out later 2021 for launch on a SpaceX rocket.
Astranis expected to deliver 7.5 Gbps to Alaska but end-to-end testing indicates it may deliver around 10 Gbps, approximately 20% more than expected.
The Astranis Software-Defined Radio provides frequency flexibility across 2.5 GHz of spectrum, creates thousands of independently routable channels, maximizes spectral efficiency, and enables reconfiguration on-orbit.
Astranis’s Alaska satellite is scheduled to initiate service from geostationary orbit in early 2022.
The Arcturus satellite is the first in a line of micro GEO satellites that Astranis is developing, each weighing 400 kg.
Astranis has raised more than $350,000,000 in total funding to date.
Astranis raised $250,000,000 in a Series C funding round that values the company at $1,400,000,000.
Astranis is developing small geostationary satellites at around 350 kg, making them among the smallest geostationary spacecraft in the commercial industry.
Astranis raised $90,000,000 in a debt and equity round in February 2020.
Astranis plans to expand spectrum use beyond Ka-band to higher-frequency Q- and V-band, which are largely unused.
Astranis had funding in hand to start service with its first commercial satellite scheduled to launch later 2021 for Alaska.
Funds managed by BlackRock led Astranis’s Series C financing round.
Astranis’ MicroGEO approach allows the company to begin providing coverage with a single satellite by focusing broadband connectivity beams where needed.
Funds managed by BlackRock led Astranis’s Series C financing round.
Astranis completed a $250,000,000 Series C financing round valuing the company at $1,400,000,000.