WASHINGTON – SmallSat Alliance Chairman Chuck Beames issued a dire warning during his keynote address that kicked off the Satellite 2023 Conference on Monday.

Japan’s new H3 rocket failed in flight last week, OneWeb moved within one launch of providing global broadband service, and Relativity Space’s Terran 1 failed to get off the launch pad.

Lunar exploration company ispace has announced it will be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 12, which is the 62nd anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Space-based data and analytics company Spire Global has reported higher revenues for the fourth quarter and full year 2022, but the company’s net loss also increased from 2021. Spire Global specializes in the tracking of various global data sets via the use of nanosatellites. The current Spire orbital fleet numbers in excess of 110 cubesats. These spacecraft are built in-house at Spire facilities.

Rocket Lab’s (NAS: RKLB) revenues soared more than 200% last year as the company launched the Electron rocket a record nine times and expanded its space systems business. Rocket Lab also recorded a higher loss as the company dealt with the high cost of obtaining the revenue and invested in the development of the much larger Neutron launcher.

BlackSky Technology nearly doubled its revenue in 2022 while sharply narrowing its net loss as the company expanded its real-time satellite geospatial intelligence services (GEOINT).

Momentus Space reported a narrower loss for 2022 as the company operated one Vigoride orbital service vehicle (OSV) in space and prepared for the launch of two others later this year.

Space Launch Delta (SLD) 45 (United States Space Force) has announced the allocation of launch pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to four startups developing small boosters.

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Welcome to this week’s S-SPACⁱ.

Apologies for the gap in indexes. I was busy covering the Next-generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in Colorado last week. Lots to catch up on.

Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier had reason to be upbeat during the company’s earnings call last week. The company’s mothership, VMS Eve, had flown back to Spaceport America the day before following a 16-month overhaul at the Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field in California.

Richard Branson has put another $5 million into Virgin Orbit (NAS: VORB) this week, raising to $60 million the amount the billionaire has put into the struggling launch provider over the past four months.

Relativity Space and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will attempt to launch new boosters while SpaceX sends a resupply ship to the International Space Station (ISS) this week.