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The Astranis satellite is slated to launch in the final quarter of 2020 as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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.
Astranis raised $90,000,000 in a debt and equity round led by Venrock and TriplePoint Capital on 2020-02-13.
Astranis will use the new funding to finish its first broadband MicroGEO satellite that will deliver internet service to Alaska.
Astranis has raised a total of $108,000,000 to date.
Astranis is building a 350-kilogram geostationary communications satellite slated to launch and begin operations by the end of the year.
TriplePoint Capital is providing a $50,000,000 debt facility to Astranis.
Pacific Dataport is the anchor customer for the first of a new class of small geostationary satellites being built by Astranis.
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.
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.
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’ first satellite will offer 7.5 gigabits per second of capacity for Pacific Dataport to use.
Astranis is building a 300-kilogram satellite to provide internet connectivity in Alaska.
Astranis is building a 300-kilogram small geostationary satellite to operate for a customer in Alaska.
Astranis plans to build and operate its own small GEO satellites.
Astranis in San Francisco, GapSat in Hong Kong, and Ovzon in Sweden are planning to launch small GEO satellites in 2020 or 2021.
Astranis’ geostationary approach uses spacecraft that are less than five percent the mass of an Intelsat EpicNG satellite.
Astranis is building a 300-kilogram geostationary satellite scheduled for launch in 2020 with a to-be-announced launch provider.