Weekly Recap #43

Main Topics

Space Power

* Beyond Reach Labs raised a $10M seed to develop their rigid structure for large deployable solar arrays. [source]

* South Korean company Flexell Space raised a $20M Series A to develop and commercialize their high efficiency Perovskite and flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell technologies. [source]

* Chinese company Qingtian Xingneng raised $14.7M led by Hangzhou Fengzhen for thin film flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar arrays. [source]

* Polish company Orbital Matter won €500K from the European Innovation Council to build solar arrays printed in space for megawatt-class satellites. [source]

* Martin Materials won $7.1M in funding from the Pentagon under the Defense Production Act to scale their solar cell coverglass manufacturing capacity. [source]

* Canadian companies Canadensys and CNL announced a partnership to build lunar tritium heaters for lunar and deep space missions. [source]

Launch

* Indian launch provider Skyroot flew their debut Vikram-1 to orbit, taking 6 satellites to a LEO at 450 km. [source]

* The JAXA RV-X rocket conducted a 40 second hop test, the first for the innovative single-stage reusable rocket Callisto led by Mitsubishi Heavy, JAXA, CNES, and the German Aerospace Center. [source]

* The Department of Defense increased Leap Space’s Phase III SBIR by $93M up from an initial $7M. [source]