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Four 'Satelite Constellation' stories January 2023 - September 2025
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What has SpinLaunch been up to lately?

Avatar for Theresa Cross Sep 8 2025 - 5:40 am PT
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SpinLaunch, the California-based space startup once best known for trying to fling satellites into orbit with a giant centrifuge, has entered a new phase. The company announced in August that it closed a $30 million Series C funding round, bringing its total raised to about $203 million. Investors include ATW Partners and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, which has also committed satellite manufacturing resources to the project. 

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Slingshot Aerospace Awarded NOAA Contract to Develop Presentation Layer for the Traffic Coordination System for Space

Avatar for Space Explored Staff Nov 28 2024 - 10:59 am PT
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., the leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation, today announced it has been awarded a $13.3 million contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) to build the TraCSS user interface. This contract includes a 12-month development period ($5.3M) with four option years.

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If you hate Starlink, you’re not going to like that China is working on its own mega constellation

Avatar for Seth Kurkowski Apr 1 2023 - 7:12 pm PT
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In 2019, SpaceX launched its first batch of 60 Starlink satellites. Since then, there have been two sides of the mega constellation debate: those that support and fear them. While I wish I could answer which of those sides is correct, I can only provide the latter more to worry about because China is entering stage right.

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