Space Startup Spotlight: LYNK

Cell phone towers are a blight on the landscape, but until recently, they were the only way to connect mobile phone users reliably. Now, though, a budding space startup says it has sent the first cell phone text message via a network of satellites without the need for any ground-based infrastructure.

Space Startup Spotlight: ALE

The majority of new space enterprises are in the business of laying the groundwork for the anticipated space-based economy. In many respects, they are akin to the railroad companies of the 19th century, providing the critical infrastructural bedrock on which civilization will flourish.

Astro Live Experiences (ALE), however, takes a wholly different tack from its peers. It wants to get people interested in space through entertainment, not engineering.

The Japanese firm is essentially a high-tech firework company. But instead of selling Roman candles, it offers punters satellite-launched projectiles that burn up in the atmosphere like meteors.

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Space Startup Spotlight: Tesselo

“Spatial insights-as-a-service.” It sounds like a brand new cloud technology out of Silicon Valley, but it’s actually the product of a startup that wants to protect the Earth.

Tesselo — a new space company founded in Lisbon in 2017 — is leveraging satellite imagery and intelligent A.I. algorithms to provide industries with environmental insights. The hope is that by allowing organizations to measure global ecological phenomena at scale, Tesselo will encourage them to use resources more sustainably.

At a fundamental level, the daily job of the Earth observation company is simple: to collect data from satellites…

Space Startup Spotlight: Interstellar Lab

Before humanity can build structures capable of withstanding the harsh conditions on the surface of Mars, we must first learn how to do it on Earth. Now a company called Interstellar Lab says that it is doing just that — building habitats in the desert that may one-day house people on distant worlds.

The company is the brainchild of the enigmatic Barbara Belvisi, a woman who successfully launched her own Paris incubator at the age of 27. …

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Space Startup Spotlight: The Launch Company

For better or for worse, the majority of the Space Industry is focused on launching rockets and satellites into space, and generally overlooks the complexity and expense of the actual launch process. A rocket company needs dozens of systems to work synchronously to get a mission to space, but these are not standardized, meaning that each launchpad is a tailor-made multi-million dollar project.

This is precisely where The Launch Company steps in to help.

Founded in 2018, The Launch Company provides critical launch equipment and infrastructure. Their products and services help to support those…

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