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Spire Global, Inc. expanded its existing partnership with Slingshot Aerospace in 2021.
The Aerospace Corp.’s Slingshot satellite will host 19 different payloads on a 12-unit Blue Canyon cubesat bus.
Aerospace plans to test its Starshield intrusion-detection software on Slingshot, a 12-unit cubesat launching in September.
Aerospace Corp. funded most of the 19 payloads on Slingshot 1 and a few payloads are from customers.
Slingshot Aerospace was launched in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California.
The 39-month Slingshot Aerospace contract includes $16,800,000 from Space Systems Command and $8,400,000 from SpaceWERX.
Slingshot Aerospace spent two years developing the Digital Space Twin prior to receiving government interest.
Slingshot Aerospace won a $25,200,000 Space Force contract on 2022-03-31 to develop a digital twin of the space environment.
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. was awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command with strategic support from SpaceWERX.
Slingshot Aerospace will develop and deploy pilot Slingshot Laboratory programs to four U.S. Space Force education organizations: Basic Military Training, the National Security Space Institute, the 319th Combat Training Squadron, and the 533rd Training Squadron.
The Space Systems Command’s Space Enterprise Consortium awarded a $2,000,000 contract to Slingshot Aerospace in September to prototype an analytics tool that ingests data from low Earth orbit satellites.
Spire will supply Slingshot Aerospace with GPS telemetry data for the DEEP contract and has been providing such data since the two companies began collaborating in 2021.
On 2021-09-30 the U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2,000,000 contract to develop a prototype analytics tool that uses space-based location data from proliferated Low Earth Orbit constellations to identify potential sources of electronic ground interference.
Spire and Slingshot Aerospace began collaborating in 2021 and Spire’s GPS telemetry data provision for the DEEP effort has been underway since that collaboration began.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2,000,000 contract on 2021-09-30 to develop a prototype analytics tool that uses space-based location data from proliferated low Earth orbit constellations to identify potential sources of electronic ground interference.
Slingshot Aerospace raised $25,000,000 in Series A-1 funds on 2022-03-10.
Slingshot Aerospace plans to hire 40 employees over the next 12 months.
The combined total raised by Slingshot Aerospace for the Series A and A-1 rounds is $34,600,000.
Since its inception in July 2017, Slingshot Aerospace has raised $42,000,000 in funding.
Slingshot Aerospace targeted $20,000,000 in the financing round but raised $25,000,000.