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Astrocast needed to raise 43 million Swiss Francs in 2022 to expand its fleet to 20 satellites before the end of 2022 and to 40 satellites in 2023.
Astrocast provided a 3U spacecraft and four satellites from Spaceflight Inc., USA were separated subsequently on the PSLV-C54 mission.
The L-band chip was completed earlier 2022 in an expedited project between CEA-Leti and Astrocast.
Spaceflight and Astrocast partnered to launch five additional nanosatellites on SpaceX Transporter-1 in January 2021.
Spaceflight previously launched all 12 of Astrocast’s spacecraft into orbit, including demonstration models from the SSO-A mission in 2018 and PSLV-C45 in 2019.
After this PSLV mission is complete, Spaceflight will have launched 16 spacecraft to the Astrocast constellation.
Spaceflight and Astrocast partnered to launch an additional five smallsats on SpaceX Transporter-1 in January 2021.
Spaceflight previously launched all 12 of Astrocast’s spacecraft into orbit, including demonstration models launched on the SSO-A mission in 2018 and PSLV-C45 in 2019.
Astrocast partnered with Airbus, CEA/LETI, and ESA to develop the Astronode S module.
Astrocast operates a global nanosatellite IoT network offering services to industries including Agriculture & Livestock, Maritime, and Environment & Utilities.
The PSLV mission carrying four Astrocast 3U spacecraft is scheduled for October 2022 to launch from Sriharikota’s Satish Dhawan Space Center to sun-synchronous orbit as a co-passenger with an Indian national primary satellite.
Astrocast extended its multi-launch agreement with Spaceflight in March 2022 to accommodate its expanding IoT constellation.
Astrocast was founded in 2014 and develops and tests its satellites and modules in-house.
The first batch of four 3U Astrocast satellites will be deployed to a 500–600-kilometer Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).
D-Orbit has a deal to launch 20 nanosatellites over three years for Swiss startup Astrocast using ION.
Astrocast plans to grow its constellation to 40 satellites in 2023 and to operate 100 satellites by 2025.
In May 2022 Astrocast plans to issue new shares to buy Dutch connectivity solutions provider Hiber, which agreed to invest around $11,000,000 in Astrocast’s secondary stock market as part of the acquisition.
The first mission under the D-Orbit–Astrocast agreement is slated for no sooner than November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and will launch D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier with four Astrocast satellites onboard.
Astrocast had been preparing to complete its Paris offering in the summer of 2022 but global market conditions prevented completion at that time.
D-Orbit plans to launch another batch of six 6U satellites for Astrocast in 2023 and 10 more in 2024 to complete the launch agreement.