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TechCrunch+ roundup: CEO pregnancy checklist, decision-tree planning, reassessing valuations
It sounds counterintuitive, but in this environment, a lower valuation might help you retain and hire talented employees.
Astrix Astronautics’ Fia Jones on wooing Peter Beck to launch her startup
Astrix has figured out how to use inflation to deploy a very large surface area from a compact volume, which allows for ease of access to power in isolated spaces.
Space tech startup ConstellR, which can monitor land surface temperatures, raises €1M pre-seed round
ConstellR, a space tech startup with a technology that can monitor land surface temperatures from space, has raised a €1 million pre-seed round led by FTTF, with the participation of strategic inves
European Space Agency awards $153 million contract for its first planetary defense mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) is doing its part to help protect the Earth from any errant asteroids that may threaten terrestrial life, awarding a €129.4 million ($153 million) contract to an indu
Dawn Aerospace unveils the Mk II Aurora suborbital space plane, capable of multiple same-day flights
Just like we enjoy a range of different possible modes of transportation on Earth, the potential of the space economy allows for many different types of vehicles and launch systems. Dawn Aerospace too
How to watch Rocket Lab launch satellites for Canon, Planet and more live
Rocket Lab is launching a rideshare mission today that includes seven small satellites from a number of different companies, including primary payload provider Canon, which is flying a satellite equip
Rocket Lab’s next mission could launch just weeks after the last one
Rocket Lab is creeping closer to its goal of weekly launches with its 13th commercial mission, nicknamed “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen,” which, if all goes well, will take off only three
Swarm gets all the approvals it needs to begin operating its satellite connectivity service in the US
Space startup Swarm emerged from stealth mode in an unusual way two years ago when it turned out that it had launched some of its satellites in contravention of an FCC order not to do so. The regulato
Rocket Lab to acquire satellite hardware maker Sinclair Interplanetary
Rocket Lab is acquiring Sinclair Interplanetary, a manufacturer of spacecraft hardware based in Toronto that has provided hardware for more than 90 satellites sent to orbit to date, including for Astr
Skylo raises $103 million to affordably connect the Internet of Things to satellite networks
One of the biggest opportunities in the new space economy lies in taking the connectivity made possible by ever-growing communications satellite constellations and making that useful for things and co
Nanoracks just booked a SpaceX launch to demo tech that turns used spacecraft into orbital habitats
SpaceX is going to launch a payload for client Nanoracks aboard one of its new rideshare missions, currently targeting late 2020, that will demonstrate a very ambitious piece of tech from the commerci
Morpheus Space’s modular, scalable satellite propulsion could be a game-changer for orbital industry
Building effective propulsion systems for satellites has traditionally been a highly bespoke affair, with expensive, one-off systems tailor-made to big, expensive spacecraft hardware. But increasingly
Why Maxar CTO Walter Scott thinks now is the time to address the orbital traffic boom
The number of objects in orbit around Earth has been growing, and growing fast. Before 1957, of course, there were a total of zero human-made objects in the orbital region of outer space just beyond E
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries resets ISS mission H-IIB rocket launch for September 24
After a setback last week due to a fire on the launch pad, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is ready to take another shot at its HTV-8 mission to deliver supplies and other payloads to the Internatio
Orbion raises $9.2M to mass-produce plasma thrusters for small satellites
Michigan-based startup Orbion has secured $9.2 million in Series A funding, which it will use as it undertakes the mass-produced manufacturing of its plasma thrusters for use in small satellites. Orbi
Rocket Lab successfully launches rideshare rocket with two experimental USAF satellites on board
Rocket Lab has successfully launched its eighth mission, an Electron rocket rideshare flight carrying four satellites to orbit for various clients. The Electron launched from Rocket Lab’s Launch
Is space truly within reach for startups and VC?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX managed to pull off something very few people thought it could — by disrupting one of the most fixed markets in the world with some of the most entrenched and protected play
SpaceRyde wants to make access to space more available and more affordable
Life can be tough for a small satellite operator – it may be relatively cheap and easy to build small sats (or CubeSats, as they’re sometimes called), but arranging transportation for those sa
NASA details Deep Space Atomic Clock and other tests launching on SpaceX Falcon Heavy
SpaceX’s next mission for its Falcon Heavy high-capacity rocket is set for June 24, when it’ll take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 20 satellites on board that c
First CubeSats to travel the solar system snap ‘Pale Blue Dot’ homage
The Insight launch earlier this month had a couple stowaways: a pair of tiny CubeSats that are already the farthest such tiny satellites have ever been from Earth by a long shot. And one of them got a