Founded in 2016, Spacety is a commercial satellite manufacturer that raised $22 million in a Series B last month. The company has launched four small satellites so far and undertaken more than a dozen space-based scientific experiments in the last two years, including a project with Israeli-Swiss startup SpacePharma on microgravity. It also counts GOMSpace as a partner.
By 2020, Spacety says it will launch 100 microsatellites each year, including instruments like this one: One of its ongoing projects apparently involves launching a satellite constellation of 288 laser-based communication microsatellites to allow airline passengers to experience the same WiFi connection speeds and costs in the air as they do on the ground—yet another sign of how we’ll soon have global internet.
