@JasonRainbow

Senior Space News writer, focusing on satellite telecom, finance & commercial markets.

Florida, USA
Joined March 2009
Exclusive: A startup founded by Starlink veterans plans to deliver megaconstellations for governments and companies seeking greater control over space infrastructure without needing a SpaceX-scale organization of their own. spacenews.com/starlink-veter…
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Roughly two-thirds of private space firms valued at $1 billion+ reached unicorn status in the last 18 months, reflecting a sharp shift in investor confidence as SpaceX’s IPO galvanizes the industry. See our analysis and the full space unicorn list here: spacenews.com/rounding-up-th…
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Cowboy Space has filed plans with the FCC for Stampede, a proposed 20,000-satellite orbital data center constellation. It’s smaller than the million-satellite system proposed by SpaceX, though still massive by historical standards: spacenews.com/cowboy-files-p…
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Fortunes have been decidedly mixed for the space businesses that merged with a SPAC in search of capital as COVID-19 ravaged the economy. Take a look at where these companies now stand after weathering the pandemic and a few years in the limelight: spacenews.com/spac-class-of-…
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WRCs have for decades played host to a fierce battleground for the space industry as it seeks to fend off repeated advances for its spectrum from bandwidth-hungry terrestrial telcos. This time, space companies face an extra threat: other space companies spacenews.com/battle-of-the-…
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A telco in the Philippines has called dibs on a small GEO spacecraft launching early next year that Astranis had reserved for Andesat, the cellular backhaul provider now facing delays in deploying Peru’s first dedicated telecoms satellite. spacenews.com/delay-for-peru…
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Commercial Project Kuiper satellites are entering production next month without design changes after two recently launched prototypes aced end-to-end tests, the broadband constellation’s vice president of technology said in an interview spacenews.com/project-kuiper… via @SpaceNews_Inc
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