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NGA announced the first orders under Luno B, including a $21 million award to Ursa Space Systems for change detection and $4.5 million to NV5 for human geography data.
Ursa Major has been awarded a $34.9 million contract from an undisclosed U.S. aerospace and defense company.
Ursa Major secured a $12,500,000 investment from the Department of Defense’s Office of Strategic Capital with matching funds from the company to further develop its Lynx solid rocket motor manufacturing process.
One of Ursa Major’s solid rocket motors completed a successful flight test on a Raytheon-built missile for the U.S. Army on 2024-12-18.
Raytheon invested in Ursa Major through its venture capital arm RTX Ventures during Ursa Major’s $138,000,000 funding rounds in 2023.
The 12 finalist teams for the NGA award included Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Anduril Industries, BlackSky Geospatial Solutions, Freedom Technology Solution Group, HII Mission Technologies, Orbital Insight, NV5 Geospatial, Planet Labs, Royce Geospatial Solutions, Space-Eyes (Channel Logistics), Striveworks, and Ursa Space Systems.
Ursa Space Systems and NEC Corporation entered into a partnership on 2024-06-20 to offer data services in Japan utilizing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery.
The 2024-06-20 collaboration combines NEC’s existing SAR-based monitoring service with Ursa Space’s virtual constellation of satellite data partners.
Earlier 2024, Ursa Space secured a U.S. Space Force contract to provide SAR data in support of Japanese disaster relief efforts following an earthquake in January.
Ursa Space Systems operates a platform that ingests data from a network of SAR and non-SAR satellite data providers, including optical, infrared, multi-spectral, and hyperspectral sensors.
Ursa Major built a Draper-specific test stand with funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory under a contract awarded last year.
Ursa Major announced a contract with the Naval Energetics Systems and Technologies (NEST) program on 2024-04-08 to develop and test a prototype solid rocket motor for the Navy’s Standard Missile program.
Hadley is the first product in a family of propulsion systems that Ursa Major is designing, developing, and producing, including liquid rocket engines and solid rocket motors.
Ursa Major designed, built, and flew the Hadley engine in less than a decade.
Ursa Major developed Hadley as a purpose-built engine to satisfy America’s commercial and national security space needs.
The TA-1 flight test with Ursa Major’s Hadley engine reached high supersonic speeds approaching Mach 5.
Ursa Major's Hadley engine successfully flew for the first time powering a Stratolaunch hypersonic test vehicle on 2024-03-09.
The production of the Satellites and the Art of War video was funded by Ursa Space Systems.
Ursa Space's automation of data analysis enables the study of thousands of satellite images over time.
Ursa Space builds data systems that analyze radar images captured by satellite.