| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.07.2026 | Inside India newsletter: Skyroot rocket puts India alongside U.S., China in private orbital launch | Monday - Friday, 11:00 - 12:00 SIN/HK | 0500 - 06:00 CET
GIC- and BlackRock-backed Indian space startup Skyroot is planning to start commercial operations in 2027.
Skyroot will compete in the sub-1,000 kg market with U.S. based startups suc... |
| 18.12.2025 | Space startups expect revenue build-up as investors turn bullish | - |
| 09.10.2025 | Как в США начался бум частных космических компаний и что сейчас происходит | В большинстве стран освоение космоса остается прерогативой государства или аффилированных с ним предприятий, но в США эту задачу берут на себя чаще всего частные компании. Это принципиально другая система, и она зарекомендовала себя как дов... |
| 28.07.2025 | Cascade Space: $5.9 Million Seed Funding Raised For Space Communication Platform | Cascade Space, a company building an end-to-end platform for space communication system design, test, and operation, recently announced it has raised $5.9 million in seed funding. The round included participation from Nova Threshold, Undete... |
| 14.03.2025 | WeLab Bank cracked Hong Kong. Now it’s taking on Southeast Asia | Premium Content
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Putra Muskita · 1d ago · 6 min readWeLab Bank cracked Hong Kong. Now it’s taking on... |
| 15.01.2025 | Amplicode становится платным (и остается бесплатным) | Практически год с момента публичного релиза в апреле все возможности Amplicode были доступны любому разработчику абсолютно бесплатно. Мы хотели, чтобы каждый мог попробовать продукт и поделиться впечатлениями, чтобы мы могли сделать его еще... |
| 03.12.2024 | Нейросеть «все-в-одном» для работы с видео, сервис для сокращения расходов в Yandex Cloud – и еще 8 российских стартапов... | 10 новых российских сервисов для поддержки клиентов при помощи ИИ, замены проекторов на офлайн-мероприятиях, командной работы над задачами в Telegram и многого другого. Битва за «Продукт недели» началась!
Product Radar — здесь каждую неделю... |
| 11.07.2024 | 'Wild Wild Space': HBO’s New Documentary on the Space Industry's Hidden Giants, Dangers | By Quincy Jon
Published Jul 11, 2024 10:57PM EDT
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The HBO documentary Wild Wild Space details the firm's competitiveness and the signific... |
| 03.07.2024 | Почему в России сложно делать глобальные IT-продукты | IT-сектор отличается гипермасштабируемостью. Вам достаточно написать софт, отладить маркетинг, и вы можете продавать свой продукт по всему миру, не думая о логистике, хранении и производстве. Это приводит к тому, что часто победитель получа... |
| 16.04.2024 | Bay Bridge Ventures is raising $200M for a new climate fund, filings show | Climate investor Bay Bridge Ventures is raising a new $200 million fund, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Bay Bridge filed paperwork Monday for the new climate fund with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The raise comes at a t... |
| 08.04.2024 | TechCrunch Space: Happy eclipse day! | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Happy Eclipse Day for everyone celebrating! I’m fortunate to be living in a part of the country that’s in the path of totality, so I’ll be away from my desk for much of today, soaking it all in.
W... |
| 02.04.2024 | «Астра» в невысоких облаках | - |
| 01.04.2024 | Footage from 2020 shows Astra rocket exploding during prelaunch testing | Footage obtained by TechCrunch shows the catastrophic ending that Astra’s Rocket 3.0 suffered during prelaunch testing in March 2020.
The explosion, which occurred at Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex, was simply reported as an “anomaly” a... |
| 07.03.2024 | Astra is the space industry’s first SPAC bust of 2024 | Astra Space, the launch company that went public in 2021 at a $2.1 billion valuation, is going private again after months of burning cash and failing to secure alternate investment.
The company announced Thursday that its board had accepted... |
| 07.11.2023 | Astra secures new debt agreement with assets as collateral | Astra has been thrown a critical lifeline in the form of new debt financing, which provides the company with a little more time to find funding to stave off catastrophe.
The company said on Monday that it had closed $13.4 million in initial... |
| 10.07.2023 | Max Q: Astra Spacecraft Engines, Inc. | Hello and welcome back to Max Q! I hope everyone had a wonderful July 4.
In this issue:
Astra’s corporate reorganization
News from Pulsar Fusion and more Astra establishes subsidiary for spacecraft engine business
Astra is carving out its s... |
| 05.07.2023 | Astra establishes subsidiary for spacecraft engine business | Astra is carving out its spacecraft engine business as a wholly owned subsidiary, a corporate restructuring that will provide greater flexibility in hiring and financing, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch and a person familiar wit... |
| 22.05.2023 | Max Q: Double the fun | Hello and welcome back to Max Q!
In this issue:
Blue Origin lands major NASA contract
News from SpaceX, and more NASA picks Blue Origin-led team to build second human landing system on the moon, joining SpaceX
NASA has chosen a Blue Origin-... |
| 01.05.2023 | Max Q: Expect the worst, hope for the best | Hello and welcome back to Max Q!
In this issue:
ispace’s lunar lander presumed lost
Update on Ursa Major
News from Hydrosat and more
ispace loses contact with lunar lander seconds before touchdown
Japanese company ispace lost communication ... |
| 20.03.2023 | Max Q: Maybe next time | Hello and welcome back to Max Q!
In this issue:
An “operational pause” at Virgin Orbit
Behold: New moon suits!
News from Project Kuiper and more At Virgin Orbit, it never should’ve come to a staff furlough
CNBC broke the bombshell news that... |
| 06.03.2023 | Max Q: About that ‘for sale’ sign on a ULA Atlas V | Hello and welcome back to Max Q!
In this issue:
The Chinese subsidiaries of U.S. VC firms investing in space tech
ispace eyes April lunar landing
News from Rocket Lab, United Launch Alliance and more As tensions build, Silicon Valley’s Chin... |
| 24.10.2022 | Max Q: The ghost in the machine | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Disrupt is finally behind us, which can only mean one thing: We are officially counting down to TC’s Space event in December! Learn more here. In this issue:
Kayhan Space presents at Disrupt
Report: Investme... |
| 17.10.2022 | Max Q: Any way you spice it | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Last week was one of those weeks where your head spins with the sheer amount of news/announcements/launches in the space sector. It’s a crazy time to be alive, folks! In this issue:
A busy November for… the ... |
| 05.09.2022 | Max Q: Disrupt | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy Labor Day! Due to the scheduling of the newsletter, I’ll have finished writing this by the time NASA makes the second launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. By now, you probably already know how it a... |
| 08.08.2022 | Max Q: Refresh | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy belated 10th birthday to the Mars Curiosity rover! We |
| 05.08.2022 | Astra changes strategy and ditches current rocket in the wake of launch debacles | Astra CEO Chris Kemp told investors Thursday that the company will be no longer launch payloads with its current lightweight vehicle, Rocket 3, and will instead re-manifest all launches on a considerably larger rocket that’s still under dev... |
| 04.07.2022 | Как определить строительные площадки на Земле, используя только данные с орбитальных аппаратов | На этом видео показаны долгосрочные изменения, которые можно увидеть при помощи Google Earth. Этот покадровый отчёт о почти 40-летнем развитии Дубая, Лас-Вегаса, Сингапура и Шанхая основан на архивных снимках, сделанных в период, когда вело... |
| 12.06.2022 | Astra’s Failed Mission Results in the Loss of NASA’s TROPICS Weather Satellites—Issues Persist? | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 12 June 2022, 08:06 pm
Astra failed to deliver on its first mission earlier today, and it is collaborating with NASA to provide the TROPICS Weather Satellite to orbit for the planet's need for storm monitoring. It... |
| 13.05.2022 | Astra’s playing the long game | In a time when every rocket launch is livestreamed on YouTube, millions of people get a front row seat to a space company’s successes and failures. Astra, a rocket startup-turned-public company, has had a few of both. But according to CEO C... |
| 07.05.2022 | Astra prepares for TROPICS launch campaign | WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle developer Astra says it is ready to perform a series of launches for NASA once it receives a license for those missions.
In a May 5 earnings call, Astra executives said they were ready to perform the first ... |
| 21.03.2022 | Max Q: All eyes on Astra | Hi folks, welcome back to Max Q. This week we have news on rockets both small (Astra’s Rocket 3.3) and very, very large (NASA’s Space Launch System). Plus further fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and some funding news too.
Max Q i... |
| 15.03.2022 | Astra reaches orbit in first mission for new customer Spaceflight Inc. | Space startup-turned-public-company Astra reached orbit for a second time, in its debut mission for new customer Spaceflight Inc.
It’s a big win for the launch company. Astra reached orbit for the first time in November 2021, but it hasn’t ... |
| 14.03.2022 | Max Q: Russian invasion reverberates through space industry | This week, Max Q again puts the focus on the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and the resulting halo effects that’s having on the international space industry. Neither private companies, like OneWeb, nor national space programs have b... |
| 06.02.2022 | Rocket startup Astra scrubs its first launch for NASA | Rocket startup Astra had to scrub its first launch for NASA, scheduled for yesterday, Saturday, February 5, due to a range asset issue.
“Standing down from today’s launch of @NASA’s ELaNa 41 mission due to a range asset that went out of ser... |
| 05.02.2022 | Astra Space : Receives First Part 450 Launch License from FAA | By Tom Marotta
Today, we're proud to announce that Astra is the first company to receive a Part 450 license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Our ELaNa41 mission for NASA (and first launch out of Cape Canaveral) will be conduc... |
| 31.01.2022 | Rocket Lab selected as a launch provider for NASA’s $300M ‘VADR’ orbital missions | Insiders and analysts have made their predictions on the 3D printing trends to watch out for. Find out more in our series focused on the future of 3D printing.
California-based aerospace firm Rocket Lab has been selected to provide launch s... |
| 06.12.2021 | Astra will launch a rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida for the first time in January | Astra is set to expand its launch footprint, after exclusively flying its first few rockets from Kodiak, Alaska. The startup will fly a mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida for client NASA in January 2022, it announced on Monday morning.
... |
| 23.11.2021 | Astra Space поставила рекорд достижения орбиты: 5 лет и 1 месяц | Калифорнийский стартап Astra Space впервые успешно запустил прототип своей ракеты на орбиту. Она доставила небольшую испытательную нагрузку для Космических сил США на высоту 500 км. Запуск состоялся через пять лет и один месяц после того, к... |
| 22.11.2021 | Astra moves full steam ahead after successful orbital launch, looks to test Rocket 4.0 next year | Rocket startup-turned-public company Astra Space is flying high Monday morning, with stock prices increasing as much as 42% since markets opened thanks to the company’s first successful orbital flight late Saturday evening. But now the real... |
| 21.11.2021 | Elon Musk congratulates space startup Astra for reaching orbit for the first time | Elon Musk commended California-based company Astra Space for reaching orbit for the first time.
The firm's rocket hit its target orbit nine minutes after liftoff, per CNBC.
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| 21.11.2021 | Elon Musk congratulates space startup Astra for reaching orbit for the first time | SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Elon Musk commended California-based company Astra Space for reaching orbit for the first time.
The firm’s rocket hit its target orbit nine minutes after liftoff, per CNBC.
“Congrats! Orbit... |
| 21.11.2021 | Elon Musk congratulates space startup Astra for reaching orbit for the first time | SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk commended California-based company Astra Space for reaching orbit for the first time.
The firm's rocket hit its target orbit nine minutes after liftoff, per CNBC.
"Congrats! Orbit is not easy,"... |
| 20.11.2021 | Astra is Now in Orbit! — The Company's First-Ever Succesful Rocket Launch | Thea Felicity, Tech Times 20 November 2021, 10:11 am
(Photo : Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
Astra joined the growing group of space vehicles in orbit as they successfully launched their first-ever rocket in space.
Rockets... |
| 11.11.2021 | Q&A with Mike Slagh, CEO and Founder of Shift | At Astra, we're always on the hunt for great people who can make the right decisions, even in fast-moving situations. Shift, a VC-backed startup that works to help current and former members of the military get great jobs at great companies... |
| 18.10.2021 | Max Q: Steve Wozniak and Alex Fielding want to map space junk | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. It was a busy week for the space industry! Keep reading for news from Astra, Blue Origin, Varda Space and more.
Tips, opinions, criticism, thoughts? Email me at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com or find me on Twitte... |
| 12.10.2021 | Astra completes investigation into August launch failure, aims for next attempt in October | Rocket launch startup Astra provided more details into its rather remarkable mission failure in August, during which the small launch vehicle hovered and drifted in the air before managing a brief vertical ascension. Even as it recounted th... |
| 12.10.2021 | Launch and Learn: LV0006 | At Astra, learning is a core value and integral part of our culture. This blog series is intended to share our approach to solving tough problems and the lessons we have learned, in an effort to contribute to our industry as we and others c... |
| 24.09.2021 | Elon Musk Clarifies Astra’s Chris Thompson Was Not SpaceX’s Co-Founder, Despite Being an Early Employee | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 24 September 2021, 08:09 pm
Elon Musk has clarified that Astra's Chris Thompson, the famed chief engineer for advanced technologies, was not a co-founder at SpaceX. He was one of the early employees in the space c... |
| 29.08.2021 | Rocket startup Astra fails to reach orbit with its Rocket 3 | Rocket startup Astra had hoped to reach orbit for the first time with its Rocket 3 this weekend, but its launch at 6:35 p.m. ET (3:35 p.m. PT) on Saturday, August 28 suffered an engine problem and failed to reach orbit.
The rocket, designat... |
| 27.08.2021 | Astra Space : Q+A with Dr. Adam London, Astra Founder and CTO | We caught up with Dr. Adam London, Astra Founder and CTO, ahead of the upcoming launch window for LV0006, Astra's third generation rocket, which begins on August 27, 2021. Keep reading to learn about our upgrades since the last launch and A... |
| 19.08.2021 | Astra given regulatory green light for its first commercial orbital launch at the end of the month | Rocket launch startup Astra has received a key license from the Federal Aviation Administration, giving the green light for the company’s first commercial orbital launch at the end of the month.
Astra CEO Chris Kemp tweeted the news on Thur... |
| 12.08.2021 | Astra Space : Announces Launch Contract with Spire Global | Data and analytics company manifested for launch
ALAMEDA, California - August 12, 2021. Astra Space, Inc. ('Astra') (NASDAQ: ASTR), named Spire Global, Inc., as a launch customer, with plans to begin launching with Astra next spring.
'Our p... |
| 07.06.2021 | HOLICITY INC.
Holicity : Astra Acquires Apollo Fusion to Reach New Orbits (Form 8-K) | Astra Acquires Apollo Fusion to Reach New Orbits
Expands Astra's Reach to Geosynchronous and Lunar Orbits
ALAMEDA, Calif. - June 7. Astra, the fastest privately funded company in history to reach space, announced today its planned acquisiti... |
| 24.03.2021 | Astra CEO to Participate in Upcoming Virtual Investor Event | ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2021--
Astra Space Inc. (“Astra”), the fastest privately-funded company in history to demonstrate orbital launch capability, today announced that Chris Kemp, co-founder and CEO, will participate in ... |
| 16.03.2021 | Giovanni Greco Joins Astra as VP of Vehicle Engineering | ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 16, 2021--
Astra today announced that Giovanni Greco joined the company as Vice President of Vehicle Engineering. Greco comes from Blue Origin, where he served as Chief Engineer of the New Shepard progr... |
| 15.03.2021 | Tesla Automation Leader Pablo Gonzalez Joins Astra to Scale Production | ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 15, 2021--
Astra today announced that Pablo Gonzalez, Ph.D., will join the company as Senior Vice President of Factory Engineering. Gonzalez previously worked at Tesla, Inc., where he led development of... |
| 03.03.2021 | Astra Wins Multi-Launch NASA Contract | ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 3, 2021--
Astra won a multi-launch NASA contract to deliver a constellation into orbit that will allow scientists to improve their measurements of tropical storms. The $7.95 million contract entails thr... |
| 24.02.2021 | SpaceX is really just SPAC and an ex | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This is our first-ever Wednesday episode. If you want to learn more about the latest edition of the podcast, h... |
| 02.02.2021 | Rocket Startup Astra Space Poised to Go Public at $2.1 Billion Valuation | - |
| 02.02.2021 | The Briefing: Astra Going Public Via SPAC, Uber To Acquire Drizly, Bumble Seeks $1B In IPO, And More | 2 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Here’s what you need to know today in startup and venture news, updated by the Crunchbase News staff throughout the day to keep you in the know.
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| 02.02.2021 | The Briefing: Astra Going Public Via SPAC, Uber To Acquire Drizly, Bumble Seeks $1B In IPO, And More | 9 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 02.02.2021 | Rocket startup Astra to go public via SPAC at $2.1 billion valuation | Last week, it was the electric-vehicle startup Faraday Future. This week, another tech startup is joining the SPAC craze. Astra, a San Francisco, California-based rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery service and launch ser... |
| 15.12.2020 | Launch startup Astra’s rocket reaches space | Rocket launch startup Astra has joined an elite group of companies that can say their vehicle has actually made it to orbital space — earlier than expected. The company’s Rocket 3.2 test rocket (yes, it’s a rocket called “Rocket”) passed th... |
| 12.09.2020 | Rocket startup Astra’s first orbital launch attempt ends early due to first-stage burn failure | Alameda-based rocket launch startup Astra finally got the chance to launch its first orbital test mission from its Alaska-based facility on Saturday, after the attempt had been delayed multiple times due to weather and other issues. The 8:1... |
| 12.09.2020 | ‘We’ll Be Back’ - Rocket Launch From Alaska Fails To Reach Orbit | Astra's rocket 3.1 lifted off as planned, but failed shortly after.Astra |
| 30.07.2020 | Rocket launch startup Astra readies for orbital test flight as early as Sunday | Rocket launch startup Astra is readying for its first orbital flight test, set to take place either this weekend or next week, weather permitting. The company will launch its “Rocket 3.1” from Kodiak, Alaska — and while these are technicall... |
| 08.02.2020 | Astra unveils plans for frequent, low-cost launches | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A small launch vehicle company emerged from stealth mode this week, but is still keeping many details about its plans and capabilities behind closed doors.
Astra, a company based in Alameda, California, formally anno... |
| 06.02.2020 | Why Astra built a space startup and rocket factory in Silicon Valley | There’s a new launch startup in the mix called Astra, which has been operating in semi-stealth mode for the past three years, building its rockets just a stone’s throw from the heart of startup central in Alameda County, Calif. Astra’s appr... |
| - | Космический стартап Astra запланировал выйти на биржу путём слияния при оценке в $2,1 млрд Статьи редакции | Astra планирует производить небольшие и дешёвые ракеты и отправлять спутники на низкую околоземную орбиту.
Космический стартап по запуску ракет со спутниками Astra станет публичным через объединение бизнеса со специальной компанией Holicity... |
| - | Astra CEO To Participate in Upcoming Virtual Investor Events | ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 3, 2021--
Astra Space Inc. (“Astra”), the fastest privately-funded company in history to demonstrate orbital launch capability, today announced that Chris Kemp, co-founder and CEO, will participate in t... |
| - | Astra CEO to Participate in Upcoming Virtual Investor Event | ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 18, 2021--
Astra Space Inc. (“Astra”), the fastest privately-funded company in history to demonstrate orbital launch capability, today announced that Chris Kemp, co-founder and CEO, will participate in ... |
| - | Astra CEO to Participate in Upcoming Virtual Investor Event | ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 12, 2021--
Astra Space Inc. (“Astra”), the fastest privately-funded company in history to demonstrate orbital launch capability, today announced that Chris Kemp, co-founder and CEO, will participate in ... |
| - | Investing in Space: From Paris, with satellites | CNBC’s Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. CNBC’s Michael Sheetz reports and curates the latest news, investor updates and exclusive intervi... |
