https://spacewatch.global/tag/airbus-ventures/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:19:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/airbus-ventures/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/02/cesiumastro-closes-470m-in-series-c-capital-for-rapid-u-s-growth-in-2026/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=70912 CesiumAstro Inc. has secured $470 million in growth capital as it seeks to cement its position as a mission-critical provider of next-generation space and defense communications. The funding includes $270 million in equity alongside a $200 million financing package from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and J.P. Morgan. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/06/impulse-space-secures-300-million-series-c-to-accelerate-in-space-mobility/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=65632 Impulse Space has announced raising $300 million in a Series C funding round led by Linse Capital. The company will use the funding to scale and execute a backlog of missions that require faster, more flexible, and more cost-effective in-space mobility.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/05/solestial-announces-17m-series-a-funding-to-scale-space-solar-manufacturing/ Mon, 19 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=65354 Solestial Inc. has announced a significant milestone with the closing of its $17M Series A funding round led by AE Ventures. The funding will enable Solestial to continue scaling its manufacturing capacity of silicon photovoltaics to 1 megawatt per year.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/04/helicity-space-secures-investment-from-lockheed-martin-ventures/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=54456 Helicity Space, a commercial space company developing in-space propulsion and power technology based on fusion power, has announced an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin. This latest raise from Lockheed Martin Ventures comes on the heels of a $5 million seed round of Helicity Space funding from investors including Airbus Ventures, TRE Ventures, Voyager Space Holdings, E2MC Space, Urania Ventures and Gaingels in December.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/12/helicity-space-raises-seed-round-for-fusion-propulsion-engines/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:00:39 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=52777 Helicity Space, a commercial space company developing in-space propulsion and power technology based on fusion power, has raised $5 million in seed round funding from several new investors. The successful raise enables Helicity Space to advance its proprietary technology, the Helicity Drive, which consists of scalable fusion propulsion engines that should enable safer, faster, reusable, and more fuel-efficient travel into deep space.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/07/impulse-space-secures-45-million-in-series-a-funding-round/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50190 Impulse Space, Inc. has announced it has secured $45 million in its Series A funding round. The funding round saw participation primarily from RTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of RTX. The Series A funding round also included other participant investors, such as Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Airbus Ventures, and Space Capital.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/02/aerospacelab-raises-e40m-in-series-b-financing-round/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:00:10 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=39246 Brussels, Belgian satellite manufacturer Aerospacelab announced having raised €40 million in a Series B funding, co-led by Airbus Ventures and XAnge, a European investor in early-stage startups. Other investors include Octave & Miroslaw Klaba, SRIW, Noshaq, BNP Paribas Private Equity, Sambrinvest, and Belaero. Aerospacelab has raised a total of €60 million since its founding in 2018. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/10/airbus-ventures-invests-in-ispaces-lunar-landers/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=36759&preview=true&preview_id=36759 The lunar lander startup ispace receives a Series C injection from Airbus Ventures, the company said, bringing the total amount raised to approximately $200 million. The funds from ispace’s Series C investment round are going to its second lunar mission, which is planned to launch in 2023, as well as to support the development of its Series 2 lunar lander for its third mission, ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/06/swiss-astrocast-seeks-e45-5-million-placement-and-stock-listing/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=33907&preview=true&preview_id=33907 The Swiss nanosatellite startup Astrocast seeks as much as €45.5 million in a private placement ahead of a direct listing on the stock market, Bloomberg reported. The company is backed by venture capital firm Adit Ventures, Airbus SE’s venture arm and the European Space Agency (ESA).]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/04/airbus-will-use-isar-aerospaces-spectrum-for-leo-launch/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=32178&preview=true&preview_id=32178 Paris, 23 April 2021. – Airbus Defence and Space will launch a small Earth observation satellite with Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum launch vehicle, the company said. “This constitutes the first major launch contract between an established space company and a privately financed European launcher company,” the startup said.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/airbus-ventures-invests-in-singapore-radiation-protection-start-up/ Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=27599&preview=true&preview_id=27599 Airbus Ventures invests in Singapore radiation protection start-up]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/infostellar-raises-us3-5-million-to-date-in-current-investment-round/ Wed, 06 May 2020 05:00:09 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22191 Infostellar, a highly innovative ground-segment-as-a-service (GSaaS) provider, announced on 30 April 2020 that it has raised a total of US$3.5 million in convertible bonds with existing investors Airbus Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund, ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/01/airbus-ventures-invests-in-innovative-u-s-launch-startup-spinlaunch/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 06:00:04 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=18663 Jonathan Yaney, Founder and CEO of SpinLaunch, Inc., has announced that the company has received an additional investment of U.S.$35 million for continued development of the world's first kinetic launch system, designed to provide the lowest-cost, environmentally responsible orbital launch system to serve the rapidly growing small satellite industry.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/12/european-launch-company-isar-aerospace-closes-17-million-series-a-funding-round/ Wed, 11 Dec 2019 06:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17694 European space company Isar Aerospace has closed a U.S.$17 million Series A investment round led by Earlybird and Airbus Ventures to develop low-cost launch vehicles dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/06/spinlaunch-secures-first-contract-for-revolutionary-new-space-launch-services/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 05:00:37 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14808 Jonathan Yaney, founder and CEO of SpinLaunch, has announced that the company has been awarded a responsive launch prototype contract from the Department of Defense (DOD), facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/spacewatchgl-interview-masashi-sato-of-nri-on-the-state-and-future-of-japanese-new-space/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 09:00:46 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11116 Japan's New Space scene is little known and understood outside of Tokyo, despite the emergence of some interesting startups such as iSpace and Infostellar to name just two as well as some big Japanese government announcements about supporting startups in the space sector. SpaceWatch.Global reached out to Masashi Sato, a Senior Consultant at the Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (NRI) in Tokyo and a leading expert on the Japanese space startup scene, to find out what the current state of play is and what the future holds.]]>