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 ...

San Francisco-based startup Astranis has purchased a dedicated launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, eschewing the less expensive “ride-share” model favored by new space companies for an ...

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 ...

Eventually, Astranis aims to mass-produce satellites at its 13,000-square-foot facility in the San Francisco area. The company currently has about 20 employees, “and we’re hiring,” Gedmark said.

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’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 put a small-scale test satellite into low Earth orbit last year, and plans to follow up with the launch of a 660-pound (300-kilogram), ...

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 ...

San Francisco-based startup Astranis has purchased a dedicated launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, eschewing the less expensive "ride-share" model favored by new space companies for an exclusive ...

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 ...