Seventy-five years ago, a camera aboard a V-22 rocket returned the first-ever photograph captured from space. The black and white image was taken with a 35 millimeter motion picture camera at an altitude of 65 miles, just above the Karman Line, the official boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. Fast forward to today, an […]
Start-Ups
NASA Awards Smallsat Science Challenge Prizes To Startup Companies
NASA has awarded $90,000 each to seven entrepreneurial startup companies under the agency’s Entrepreneur’s Challenge program. The awards will advance new technology concepts ranging from novel materials with properties not found in nature to innovative technologies that will enable smallsat science missions. The following companies were selected as winners of the Entrepreneur’s Challenge: Morpheus Space […]
Euroconsult’s 2021 Finspace Finalists Named
Euroconsult’s Finspace pitch initiative was launched in 2017 as part of the company’s flagship World Satellite Business Week event and strives to showcase the most promising and innovative start-ups from across the space and satellite industry value chains. Six finalists have been selected for the 2021 awards from entries that were submitted from all across Europe, the […]