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Industry Perspective: What the FCC's “Weird Space Stuff” Proposal Means for Space Startups
The Federal Communications Commission is beginning to address a key constraint on the next wave of space missions: access to spectrum for telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C).
go2b.ws/weirdspacestuff
#FCC #BlackwingSpace #Space30 #CommericalSpace
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I'll be in Austin at SXSW with @BlackwingSpace next week, meeting with founders, payload developers, partners, and investors working across the space ecosystem. Looking forward to connecting with friends, colleagues, and new "Space Friends"™.
At Blackwing Space we're building commercial, American-made nanosatellite platforms designed to help startups, universities, and research and corporate teams move faster from concept to orbit.
During @sxsw I'll be spending most of my time around @CapitalFactory House, Space House, @LaunchTN Tennessee House, and several of the space-focused sessions and venture events happening throughout the week. If you're trying to find me, you'll probably find me there.
If you'll be there, let me know — always happy to say hello, grab a quick coffee, or catch up backstage at Capital Factory. And if you're building something that needs to get to orbit, definitely reach out.
Best way to connect: If you'll be there, comment below or DM me on @LinkedIn. I’ll find you.
Original: zip2.it/sxswpost
#Space #CommercialSpace #SXSW #BlackwingSpace #Nanosatellites
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🚀 Day 2 at the @ssta_utk Student Space Technology Conference in Knoxville. See day 1: zip2.it/day1
Saturday morning's keynote from Brigadier General Damon Feltman of the @SpaceForceAssoc, was a great way to start the day and set the tone for a full schedule ahead.
🎓 The student competition presentations that followed were great. Teams from @NCState, @universityofga, and the @UTKnoxville presented impressive technical work with strong engineering depth and confidence.
🌎 The industry exhibition was packed, and the engagement at the @BlackwingSpace booth was "off the hook". Thank you to everyone who stopped by to talk platforms, payloads, and paths to orbit.
🧭 After lunch, the State of the Space Industry panel featuring @RyanKriser, Maj. Gen. John Olson, Dr. @JohnSchmisseur, and Dr. Kurt Polzin was an excellent, substantive, and very high-quality discussion to kick off the afternoon. It was followed by panels on Advanced Propulsion, Space Startups, Policy & Defense, and Building the LEO Economy. The conversations reflected real alignment between academia, industry, and government across Tennessee.
See: zip2.it/day2
#Space30 #Blackwing #SouthernSpaceCorridor #TNSpace
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🚀Kudos to @ZacharyMarano, Caroline Czarnecki, and the entire @ssta_utk team for the start of what is clearly a very well-planned and well-produced Student Space Technology Conference.
🌎Last night, during the welcome dinner of the inaugural event, the room was packed with students not only from the South but from across the nation, alongside faculty and industry professionals, all gathering in Knoxville for two days of technical exchange, competition, networking, and dialogue about the future of space systems.
🎓It was great to see this team's vision of creating a conference within the financial reach of students, and one that exposes them to a broad range of space technologies and speakers unfold! I, for one, can say that the professionals in the room were impressed. What stood out was a new breed of young engineers who connected and engaged with speakers, presenters, and exhibitors in meaningful ways. These young people were focused, curious, and energized - not passive observers, but participants. This is the way!
🧭We applaud them for making the concept of the 'Southern Space Corridor' that we talk about at @BlackwingSpace more real. Special thanks to @TypeOneVC, the premier sponsor of the event, and to the many others who helped sponsor or support it and who are investing in young minds and new ideas.
See post on LinkedIn: zip2.it/day1
#BlackWing #615vc #SouthernSpaceCorridor #Knoxville #TN
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Blackwing Space will be in New York next week on Monday, February 23, for the @NYSE Space Summit.
We are building commercial, American-made nanosatellites that lower the cost and complexity of accessing space. Our modular platforms help startups, research teams, enterprises, and government users move faster from concept to orbit across missions such as Earth observation, communications, in-orbit compute, and technology demonstration in the Space 3.0 economy.
Our co-founder and COO, Oliver Muoto (@muoto), will be on the ground connecting with partners, customers, investors, and industry leaders, including those helping shape the Space 3.0 era of commercial space.
If you will be attending, we would welcome the chance to connect.
Fly soon. Fly often. Fly Blackwing.
LinkedIn: go2b.ws/nysepost
#Space30 #CommercialSpace #Nanosatellites #BlackwingSpace
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Building satellites and space community in Nashville! 🐦⬛x🪽x 🛰️
🎸Last night, @BlackwingSpace x @615vc pulled together a small group of local and visiting "Space Friends" for an informal happy hour at the LA Jackson rooftop in Nashville.
🛰️You might not guess it, but there are professionals working at @Airbus, @AerospaceCorp, @Astra, @GeneralElectric Aerospace, @LockheedMartin, @The_TrueAnomaly, @blueorigin, @SEOPSLLC, @SkydioHQ, @shieldaitech, @WhisperAero and others all based in Nashville. Not all of them were in the room last night, but the ecosystem is bigger than most people think!
🚀At Blackwing Space, we're committed to building the "Southern Space Corridor" - connecting space talent and resources to drive regional commercial space in the Greater South. With @usspacecom now relocating to Huntsville, just 90 minutes down I-65, this corridor is only going to become more important.
🙏 Shout-out to everyone who joined us, and to all the space friends building space companies and community in places people don't expect.
🧬Special thanks to the @RhScientific team - Olivia Gámez Holzhaus, Heath Mills, and @NASA astronaut Michael Baker - and the ever-present Colleen McLeod Garne for dropping by while visiting town for the @PulseCapitalFi conference.
🌎Space is the new frontier, and it's being built in places people don't expect.
See LinkedIn Post: go2b.ws/nashvillespace1
#Nashville #Space30 #Blackwing #SouthernSpaceCorridor
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Building a satellite should be as easy as customizing a laptop online!
That's why we built the Blackwing Space Platform Configurator.
In a few simple screens, you can select the nanosatellite platform for your payload, choose platform options and mission services, and submit your configuration in minutes. From platform selection and payload integration to launch, regulatory licensing, mission operations, and even insurance coverage, the entire mission-scoping process is distilled into one intuitive workflow.
Minutes, not months. No opaque pricing. No 18-month RFP process. No “contact sales to learn more.”
Space 3.0 should be commercial, transparent, and accessible. If we truly believe nanosatellites are the future of space innovation, then buying one should reflect how modern products are purchased - like ordering something from @amazon .
Build your satellite in minutes: go2b.ws/config
Fly early. Fly often. Fly soon
#Space #CommercialSpace #Space30
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Over the weekend, we quietly rolled out the first version of the Sparrow Payload Interface Guide to a few friends and early customers.
This is our first set of tools and documentation to help teams design, build, and integrate payloads directly onto Sparrow, including mechanical templates, electrical interfaces, and integration references.
At Blackwing Space, we’re focused on building affordable, American-made, modular nanosatellite platforms for the next generation of Space 3.0, making it easier for startups, universities, corporations, and government teams to get real hardware in orbit without multi-year timelines or custom satellite builds.
If you’re working on a payload (sensors, edge compute, materials, comms, tech demos, etc.) and interested in flying on Sparrow, reach out. We're making this available to a small number of teams and partners and would love to connect.
Fly early. Fly often. Fly soon.
🌵✨ Last Thursday's Phoenix Space Happy Hour was a great reminder of the importance of building a local space community. Huge thank you to everyone who joined and helped make the night special. See post on LinkedIn: zip2.it/phx
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🛰️An incredible evening with an incredible group of people. Last night in #Nashville, 615.vc hosted our first Space Dinner in Music City, bringing the series home after some great events in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York in the recent past.
🍽️Last night's dinner was part of building space-related momentum in Tennessee and the greater South, and the work continues! Informal dinners remain the ideal setting for meaningful discussion. Conversations covered industry momentum, emerging opportunities, Space 3.0, and the surprisingly small world that is space. The evening ran long for all the right reasons!
🙏Appreciate everyone who made the time. Thank you to Deep Tech Go to Market (dual-use GTM strategy) and @BlackwingSpace (affordable American-made nanosatellite platforms enabling Space 3.0) for making the evening possible.
✈️Next up: LA
zip2.it/nashvillespace
#Space30 #SpaceDinner
ALT Space Dinner in Nashville, TN
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🌴 Last Thursday’s @615vc Space Dinner LA brought together a great group of space startups, investors, and ecosystem partners.
🍽️ Informal dinners remain the best way to build real connections and keep conversations going.
🚀Also in LA for Space Industry Days, supporting @BlackwingSpace (American-made affordable x modular nanosatellite platforms) and meeting with partners and prospective customers.
🛰️ Appreciate everyone who joined us.
📸 Full recap and photos on LinkedIn: zip2.it/spacela2026
cc: @ArkisysInc, @OrbitalOps, @charter_space_
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New Space friends 🚀 @vast, @Techstars, @ORBES_space, @katalystspace. Amazing people with great ideas.
Thanks to @615vc 💙
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Blackwing Space is pleased to announce it has been selected to join Vanderbilt University’s Space-Edge 2025-26 cohort, focused on advanced materials and manufacturing in microgravity.
Blackwing Space builds commercial, American-made nanosatellite platforms that lower the cost and complexity of accessing space. Our affordable platforms accelerate ideas to orbit for commercial, research, and educational missions, and support a wide range of operational and technology-driven on-orbit applications.
Space-Edge brings together researchers and companies exploring polymers, composites, biomanufacturing, and other space-enabled breakthroughs, innovations that benefit from faster, more accessible paths to orbit.
Blackwing Space is building for the Space 3.0 economy - where satellites are smaller, smarter, and more affordable.
cc: @VanderbiltU, @SpaceFoundation, @ASU, @RiceUniversity, @UCF, @blueorigin, @boryung_corp, @Starlab_Space, @virgingalactic, @GSpace
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🚀Happening next week in New York in collaboration with our friends at @AntlerGlobal VC, the Space x Aerospace Happy Hour (Thursday, Oct 24) is bringing together space and aerospace startups, investors, industry leaders, and partners to ignite new connections and uncover opportunities for collaboration within these ever-evolving sectors.
🛰️Featured startups include @HStarSpace, pioneering transportation for humans to live and work in space; Satlyt, delivering fast and secure edge computing in space; @OutboundAero, building the next generation of airliners; and @Melagen_labs, advancing the development of space shields. Sponsored by @Siemens (Siemens Xcelerator Platform) and @VetsInTech.
📅If you are in the NYC area, RSVP and join us:
zip2.it/nyspace
#space #aerospace #nyc #newyork
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🚀Happening this Tuesday at @Techweek_ #SFTechWeek, the Space x Aerospace Happy Hour. This event brings together space and aerospace startups, investors, industry leaders, and partners to drive new connections and create opportunities for collaboration within these rapidly evolving sectors.
🌟Special thanks to headline sponsor @Siemens, whose Siemens Xcelerator platform is helping space startups tackle technical and financial challenges, fostering growth and innovation across the industry. Plus engage with fellow organizers @SolideonUSA, Satlyt, Melagen Labs, @SpaceDOTSInc, @IgnitePR, @615vc and others.
🌍Forge strategic alliances and uncover opportunities both on and off-planet!
📅RSVP: zip2.it/sfspace
#space #aerospace #sftechweek
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HARMONY OF RESILIENCE: Recorded in space and sent to Earth via @SpaceX’s @Starlink constellation, Polaris Dawn crewmember and violinist @Gillis_SarahE invites you to enjoy this music moment in support of @StJude & @ElSistemaUSA → polarisprogram.com/music
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Introducing Oliver Muoto, Principal, 615.vc, as a speaker at the Satellite Manufacturing in Africa for Global Markets webinar.
Oliver invests seed and angel capital through 615.vc, targeting early-stage deep-tech startups focusing on NewSpace and dual-use technology.
Register today to join us next Thursday by 12 pm GMT via Zoom for insights on financing in the African NewSpace ecosystem, specifically the satellite manufacturing segment and how it influences their entry into the global market.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
#SIAWebinarSeries
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🎉 Big news! The official calendar of events for #SFTechWeek and #LATechWeek is now LIVE!
And thrilled to announce that this is officially our BIGGEST Tech Week, ever!
- 850+ events 🤯
- San Francisco: Oct 7-13 🌉
- Los Angeles: Oct 14-20 🌴
Link to register below to see all events👇
This Thursday in Los Angeles, @615vc had the opportunity to host its inaugural space industry dinner at the Akasha Restaurant in Culver City.
Linkedin Post: zip2.it/spacedinnerla
#Space #Dinner #SpaceDinner #LA
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We are excited to share that @phasecapital and @615vc are hosting a BioTech Day Summit in Franklin, TN, on June 14. This event uniquely positions the mid-South as a hub for biotech innovation, providing opportunities for startups and established entities to access capital, partnerships, and cutting-edge insights.
biotechdaysummit.com
#BioTech #Nashville #Summit #PhaseCapital #615vc
