Cartosat-2(S)/Cubesats
6/23/2017
The Day 1 issue of the Show Daily was published on 2018-08-07 and features coverage of Rocket Lab, NASA’s smallsat initiative, Spaceflight, Terran Orbital, Ursa Major, Loft Orbital, Telesat’s LEO constellation, and Maxar’s new smallsat division.
Ursa Major raised $8,000,000 in funding in fall 2018 with participation from the Space Angels Network.
Ursa Major anticipates completing the larger 35,000-pound-thrust Ripley engine, also LOX-kerosene, in 2020.
Ursa Major raised $8,000,000 last fall with participation from the Space Angels Network.
Ursa Major anticipates completing the 35,000-pound-thrust Ripley engine in 2020.
Ursa Major delivered 12 Hadley engines so far 2022.
Ursa Major won a $3,600,000 U.S. Air Force contract to support development of the company’s Hadley liquid engine for small launch vehicles.
Ursa Major has built and tested more than 50 staged-combustion rocket engines.
Ursa Major has built and tested more than 50 staged-combustion rocket engines.
Ursa Major will provide a flight-qualified 5,000-pound-thrust oxygen-rich staged combustion rocket engine named Hadley suited for both booster and upper-stage phases of launches to low-Earth orbit.
Under the Air Force Research Laboratory contract, Ursa Major will build and test a prototype of its Draper engine for hypersonics and will further develop its 200,000-pound-thrust Arroway engine for space launch.
Ursa Major won a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract on 2023-05-23 to support the development of two of the company’s rocket engines.
America Makes awarded Ursa Major $3,000,000 in 2021 for the company’s 3D manufacturing lab.
Ursa Major received additional funding from America Makes on 2023-08-02 to produce 3D printed engine hardware.
Ursa Major aims to supply solid rocket motors to the U.S. Department of Defense and to partner with other manufacturers.
Ursa Major raised $138,000,000 in Series D and Series D-1 funding rounds on 2023-11-30.
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.
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.
Raytheon invested in Ursa Major through its venture capital arm RTX Ventures during Ursa Major’s $138,000,000 funding rounds in 2023.