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NorthStar Earth & Space’s satellites are built and operated by Spire Global.
NorthStar Earth & Space’s satellites are built and operated by Spire Global.
NorthStar’s satellites are built and operated by Spire Global.
NorthStar Earth & Space Inc. closed a CA$20,000,000 Series D funding round on 2023-12-06.
NorthStar was second in line to launch on Rocket Lab’s manifest before the September 2023 Electron failure.
NorthStar’s launch contract with Rocket Lab includes two additional missions of four satellites each intended to provide full commercial space situational awareness services designed to track objects as small as five centimeters in low Earth orbit and 0.4 m in geostationary orbit.
On 2023-12-06 NorthStar Earth and Space raised an additional $15,000,000 to support its first four satellites for tracking objects in orbit.
NorthStar Earth and Space has raised a total of 143 million Canadian dollars ($105,000,000) for building out a space situational awareness business following its Series D funding round.
Telesystem Space Inc. invested in NorthStar Earth & Space Inc.'s CA$20,000,000 Series D funding round.
NorthStar pivoted to Rocket Lab for a fall launch but faced a delay after Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket failed in September 2023 to deploy an imaging satellite for Capella Space.
NorthStar Earth & Space switched its planned launches to Rocket Lab after Virgin Orbit’s failure and expected its satellites to launch on Electron before the end of 2023.
NorthStar CEO Stewart Bain and European Space Agency General Director Joseph Aschbacher signed the “Statement for a Responsible Space Sector” at World Satellite Business Week in Paris.
NorthStar’s SSA services are scheduled to launch in 2023.
NorthStar’s space-based SSA services are designed to provide coverage across low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and cis-lunar space.
Virgin Orbit was scheduled to launch Spire’s first 16U cubesat for NorthStar Earth and Space in mid-2023 before Virgin Orbit collapsed into bankruptcy.
NorthStar Earth and Space signed a contract with Rocket Lab on 2024-06-22 to launch its first four space situational awareness satellites on an Electron this fall.
Stewart Bain, CEO of NorthStar, highlighted that the agreement represents a significant milestone in the advancement of commercial Space Situational Awareness services.
NorthStar Earth & Space and SES have signed an agreement to collaborate on next-generation commercial Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services.
The collaboration between NorthStar and SES aims to significantly increase the precision of resident space object (RSO) tracking.
The partnership between NorthStar and SES aims to address urgent challenges posed by increasing space debris and orbital congestion.