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Space Perspective raised $17,000,000 in May and has raised more than $65,000,000 to date.
Space Perspective announced the acquisition of MS Voyager on 2022-11-15.
Space Perspective originally planned to launch its balloons from land on Florida’s Space Coast and plans MS Voyager as the first of several ships to augment those plans.
Space Perspective raised $40,000,000 in a Series A round in October 2021.
Space Perspective plans to build a headquarters and manufacturing complex at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville.
On 2021-10-14, Space Perspective raised $40,000,000 in a Series A funding round led by Prime Movers Lab.
Space Perspective performed a test flight on 2021-06-18 from the Florida spaceport that carried a full-size, but not full-weight, mockup of the Neptune capsule to an altitude of 33 km.
Space Perspective raised $7,000,000 in a seed funding round in December 2020.
Space Perspective raised $7,000,000 in a seed funding round to test its technologies.
Space Perspective will use the seed funding to continue development of Spaceship Neptune, a stratospheric balloon system designed to carry people to an altitude of 30 km.
Space Perspective closed the seed funding round on 2020-12-02.
Space Perspective is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to obtain a commercial launch license.
Space Perspective has a Space Act agreement with Kennedy Space Center providing atmospheric condition data and access to test facilities to assist in trajectory analysis.
Space Perspective plans to develop a system to fly people and research payloads to an altitude of 30 km using a balloon system.
Space Perspective will begin operations in Florida and has a lease with Space Florida to use a building at the former Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, now called the Launch and Landing Facility.