Weekly Recap #49 + Kall Morris Inc Interview

This week we interviewed Troy Morris, Co-Founder and CEO of Kall Morris Inc, on their recent STRATFI win, hear how they plan to use that money for on-orbit servicing! Main Topics Launch * SpaceX announced plans for a $100B Starship launch site in Louisiana. [source] * Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket has successfully completed its first Geostationary mission. [source] * China’s Long March 6C fragmented on orbit, generating 10s to 100s of fragments from the event. [source] * China’s Chang’e-7 moon rover mission was delayed indefinitely. [source] * Space Angel won a $1.75M grant from the Western Australian government to support plans for new spaceports. [source] Government * Tomorrow.io won a 5 year, $49M, IDIQ NOAA contract to provide advanced weather modeling services. [source] * Spire Global won a $28M NOAA contract to advance hyperspectral microwave sounding technology. [source] * Leolabs was awarded a $20M USSF contract for their mobile space tracking Scout radar system. [source] * The SDA announced the intent to resume Tranche 1 Transport Layer deployments for the PWSA. [source] * York Space Systems announced their selection to join the USSF’s Space Data Network Backbone (SDN-B) program. [source] Infrastructure * Beyond Reach Labs unveiled their large format solar array deployment platform: Flarewing. [source] * Constellr selected Space Inventor to expand their constellation and supply microsatellite platforms. [source] * Kepler launched their commercial optical data relay service aboard their optical data relay constellation. [source] * Northstar Space agreed to host 11 SDA terminals on future Kepler satellites. [source] * Bioorbit was selected for Germany’s SPRIN-D Orbital Bioworks challenge. [source] * Edge Aerospace and Redwire established U.S. manufacturing partnership. [source] * Star Catcher signed Aethero as a power-beaming customer. [source] Business Moves * Ursa Major announced their public listing through a SPAC with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. III at a valuation of approximately $2.3B. [source] * Astrum Space announced plans to SPAC through Black Space Acquisition III Co. at a $1B valuation. [source] * CesiumAstro acquired 1Aardvark for their autonomous mission capabilities, and announced their undisclosed Series D raise. [source] * MDA announced the founding of Launchpad Ventures, an investment vehicle focused on investing in Canadian space and defense companies. [source] * India’s Inspecity raised a $10.5M Seed round of funding. [source] Tech Advances * NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman telescope to study dark matter. [source] * Veoware successfully demonstrated their miniCMG on Planet’s Pelican platform. [source] * Infleqtion was awarded a $20M NASA contract for a mission flying their quantum gravity sensor. [source] Get full access to Space Times at spacetimespod.substack.com/subscribe