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Spy agency pumps billions into orbital imagery companies BlackSky, Maxar and Planet

Lockheed Martin increases its bet on satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital with $100 million investment

November 1, 2022 Aria Alamalhodaei 154 ViewsLockheed Martin, terran orbital 1 min read

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is deepening its investment in satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital with a $100 million investment and a cooperation agreement for the development and sale of smallsats through 2035. Terran also announced that it will now build its massive, $300 million space vehicle manufacturing facility in Irvine, California, not Florida as originally planned. […]

Blue Origin’s private space station is starring in a new movie — but it’s firmly grounded for now

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Blue Origin’s private space station is starring in a new movie — but it’s firmly grounded for now

September 20, 2022 Aria Alamalhodaei 230 ViewsBlue Origin, Helios, Lockheed Martin, NASA, orbital reef, Sierra Space 1 min read

Orbital Reef, the in-progress private space station headed by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, is coming to the big screen. The companies announced today that the space station will be featured in a forthcoming film, HELIOS, in a deal with production company Centerboro Productions. The film, which will be set in 2030, will be the […]

Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

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Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

September 6, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 210 ViewsAston Martin, augmented reality, Banking, Boeing, bytedance, ceo, Companies, CTO, eqt ventures, finance, finland, Foxconn, healthcare, helsinki, here, HMD Global, HP, Kia, Lifeline Ventures, Lockheed Martin, manufacturing, Mark Zuckerberg, meta, metaverse, Microsoft, mixed reality, mobile phones, Nokia, nokia mobile phones, smartphone, technology, teleport, timo toikkanen, United States, varjo, Virtual reality, volvo, XR 5 min read

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise, and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for […]

Lunar Outpost eyes up first-mover advantage for moon markets

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Lunar Outpost eyes up first-mover advantage for moon markets

July 13, 2022August 10, 2022 Aria Alamalhodaei 226 ViewsIntuitive Machines, Lockheed Martin, lunar outpost, NASA 4 min read

“This is going to be the largest market in human history.” Justin Cyrus, co-founder and CEO of Lunar Outpost, is referring to the space economy: The slew of activities that could take place around or on the moon, in the orbital space around Earth or beyond. Lunar Outpost, a company that is developing rovers and […]