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Business News

A Former Disney Star Just Launched a Space Startup With $6.3 Million in Seed Funding. Here's Why She Did It.

Bridgit Mendler co-founded Northwood Space to bring data from space reliably down to Earth.

Science & Technology

Why the Satellite Tech Market is Poised to Dominate Many Sectors

The satellite technology market presents several challenges and opportunities, but it isn't just for rocket scientists – it's also fertile ground for entrepreneurs looking to innovate.

News and Trends

[Funding Alert] Spacetech Start-Up Agnikul Raises INR 23.4 Cr In Round Led By pi Ventures

The company is developing a satellite launch vehicle for payload capacity of up to 100 kilograms. It said it plans to use these funds for ground testing, fabrication and team expansion.

News and Trends

How Gilmour Space Technologies is Leading the Way For Hybrid Rockets

The startup plans to use the funding to launch their first commercial hybrid rocket to orbit in 2020

Entrepreneurs

How to Monetize Space Beyond Expeditions and Research

Gone are the days when this sector was only limited to research done by governmental space agencies like Nasa and ISRO.

Business News

SpaceX Seeks U.S. Approval to Provide Internet from Space

The Calif.-based company, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, has proposed an orbiting digital communications array that would eventually consist of 4,425 satellites.

Business News

Elon Musk's SpaceX Launches Satellite, Lands Rocket Back on Drone Ship in Ocean

It's the fourth time a SpaceX rocket has landed on the drone ship, which is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, and the sixth time one of the company's space vehicles has landed back on Earth.

Business News

SpaceX Rocket Launches Satellite, Then Lands on Ship at Sea

The satellite is designed to provide television, data and mobile communications services to customers across Asia, Russia and Oceania and the Pacific Islands.

Business News

Russia Launches First Rocket From New Spaceport at Second Attempt

A rocket carrying three satellites launched near China's border.

Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Virgin Galactic Lands in Long Beach, Unveils Plan to Launch Small Satellites Into Space

Richard Branson's commercial spaceflight venture moved into the Southern California city to build a craft that will rocket satellites, not people, into space. We caught up with Virgin Galactic's CEO for the latest details.

Business News

A Startup Founded by Former NASA Scientists Just Landed $95 Million

The San Francisco-based private company's list of investors include SpaceX backer Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Here's Elon Musk's Plan to Deliver Internet Access to Billions

It involves sending a network of 700 lightweight satellites into space.

Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Are Richard Branson and Google Teaming For Space Travel?

According to reports, Google is mulling a stake in Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, a deal in which the tech giant would have to pony up $30 million in exchange for access to pioneering space-travel technology.