Space

True Anomaly, Inc. has announced that it has come out of stealth and raised $30M in funding to date, including its recent $17M Series A led by Eclipse in partnership with Riot Ventures, Champion Hill Ventures, Space.VC, and Narya.

UK Space Agency has welcomed four entrepreneurs to the accelerator programme this year. Their backgrounds range from simulations and sustainability to propulsion and a circular space economy.

Eclipse has announced $1.23 billion in new funds, comprising $720 million for Eclipse Fund V and $510 million for Eclipse Early Growth Fund II. This brings the Company's total assets under management to ~$4 billion. With this capital, the Company intends to continue to partner with founders building ambitious companies tackling the world’s most pressing challenges. 

In the Ninth episode of Space Café Israel, Meidad Pariente is in conversation with Arie Halsband. Can you share something personal that isn’t written in your LinkedIn profile? Well, I'm not sure that nobody knows. But I'm enthusiastic about history, and read history books, as a hobby. And I think that history may teach us a lot about events, stressful situations, and how people behave in such situations.

ITU Member States have approved a major report on the technical, operational, and regulatory materials for the preparation of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23). The report summarizes and analyses the results of extensive technical studies which members of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector conducted.

Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983, offering information, education, and collaboration for the global space ecosystem, has announced the selection of Major General Heather Pringle, U.S. Air Force, as its new chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2023. Presently serving as Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Major General Pringle will be retiring in Summer 2023 after 32 years of military service.

KT SAT Corporation Ltd. (KT SAT) and Thales Alenia Space have announced that KOREASAT 6A will embark on a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) payload to improve the continuity and availability of the Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS).

ICEYE US Inc., a subsidiary of ICEYE, has announced a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with NASA. The contract is a five-year agreement for the purchase of synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data for evaluation to determine their suitability for advancing NASA’s science and application goals. Since 2020, NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program has been identifying, evaluating, and acquiring data from commercial sources aligned with NASA’s Earth Science Division objectives.

RAND researchers have assessed the progress that the commercial spaceflight industry has made in adopting voluntary safety standards, the industry’s progress in meeting key metrics set by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2017, and whether the industry has matured such that areas identified in FAA reports are ready for regulatory action. The Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 imposes a moratorium on safety regulations until the 1st of October, 2023. The FAA will be authorised to propose and issue regulations upon expiration of the moratorium. 

Safran Electronics and Defence company, Orolia, based in France has announced a partnership with Xona Space Systems to develop support for Xona’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation and navigation signals in its Skydel-powered simulation and testing products. Xona is developing PULSAR, a positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) service enabled by a commercial constellation of dedicated LEO satellites. Skydel powers Safran’s portfolio of advanced GNSS simulators like the GSG-8.