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Space

Max Q: Firefly Aerospace is making moves

Aria Alamalhodaei

In this issue: Firefly’s making moves with summer launches and a new acquisition; Layoffs at Ursa Major; News from NASA and more.

Max Q: Firefly Aerospace is making moves
Space

With $20M in new funding, Hydrosat preps climate-monitoring satellites for launch

Stefanie Waldek

Data is becoming as precious as water in precision agriculture, and Hydrosat aims to help provide both with a new set of Earth observation satellites. The company has raised a…

With $20M in new funding, Hydrosat preps climate-monitoring satellites for launch
Space

Max Q: Elon Musk talks Starship, envisions first orbital launch in January 2022

Aria Alamalhodaei

Hello and welcome back to Max Q, your very favorite space news digest. A ton happened this week — launches, financing deals, contract awards, etc., etc. — so let’s dive…

Max Q: Elon Musk talks Starship, envisions first orbital launch in January 2022
Startups

Hydrosat closes another $10M in funding for ground temperature analytics product

Aria Alamalhodaei

Hydrosat, a geospatial data startup, has secured $10 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ground temperature analytics product. The company aims to collect surface temperature data…

Hydrosat closes another $10M in funding for ground temperature analytics product
Space

Max Q — China’s space station gets a staff

Darrell Etherington

Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Mondays in your inbox. This week, China started staffing up its…

Max Q — China’s space station gets a staff
Space

Hydrosat raises $5M seed round to deliver ground temperature data to customers

Aria Alamalhodaei

A lot of information can be gleaned about a surface area just by taking the ground temperature data. If a crop field is under stress, for example, the ground temperature…

Hydrosat raises $5M seed round to deliver ground temperature data to customers