Astranis has fully funded its next-generation satellite program, called Omega, after closing its $200 million Series D round, the company said Wednesday. “This next satellite is really the ...

Astranis, which is taking a novel approach to internet satellites, is looking at launching one or more UtilitySats in 2025, with the eventual aim to include a UtilitySat in every batch of ...

Astranis, a satellite internet startup based in San Francisco, said Wednesday that its first spacecraft completed a milestone test and will start bringing broadband access to rural Alaskans as ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches four Astranis communications satellites into orbit from Space Launch Complex-40 (LC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Dec. 29, 2024.

Astranis' satellites fly at an altitude of 37,000 km and remain over a single area of the world, where they can deliver continuous service. There are modest latency issues from this altitude, ...

Astranis Space Technologies Corp. will partner with Taiwan’s biggest telecommunications company Chunghwa Telecom Co. to dedicate a MicroGEO satellite to the island, according to a statement from ...

Astranis has been selected as one of four prime contractors for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command’s (SSC) new Resilient GPS (R-GPS) program. This initiative aims to augment the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is targeting Sunday for Falcon 9’s launch of the Astranis: From One to Many mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at ...

Astranis’s MicroGEO satellites weigh about 800 pounds, about one-fifteenth of the 13,000-lb. mass of Carlsbad, Calif., space-communications firm Viasat’s upcoming ViaSat-3 broadband satellite. ...

Astranis has fully funded its next-generation satellite program, called Omega, after closing its $200 million Series D round, the company said Wednesday. “This next satellite is really the ...

When news broke last month that Astranis’ first commercial satellite in orbit malfunctioned, the company made an unexpected announcement: it had a backup. UtilitySat is aptly named: as Astranis ...