Some good news for the Russian satellite company Dauria Aerospace: Cybernaut will be pumping US$70 million into the creation of a group of 10 satellites for daily imaging of the 100 biggest cities in the world with an accuracy of 0.7 metres per pixel. The Chinese investment fund will be collaborating with Russian private space company Dauria Aerospace. The pair signed a term sheet yesterday at the second Chinese-Russian Expo […]
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The Russian state corporation Vnesheconombank has invested 60 million rubles ($1.1 million) into Dauria Satellite Technologies, which is a spinoff of the private Russian satellite company Dauria Aerospace.
The funding will help advance development of the Auriga optical remote sensing spacecraft, which will take high resolution images of the Earth.
The investment contract was signed at Startup Village on Tuesday by Dauria Aerospace general director Sergei Ivanov and VEB chairman Andrei Morozov.
RESTON, VA., USA, April 30, 2015 (ILS PR) – International Launch Services (ILS) and Dauria Aerospace (Dauria), of Moscow, Russia, signed an agreement today to collaborate on opportunities to launch spacecraft utilizing an ILS Proton or Angara launch vehicle beginning in the 2017 timeframe.
The agreement, signed by ILS President, Phil Slack and Dauria CEO, Sergey Ivanov, states that both companies will mutually cooperate on identifying spacecraft that can be dual launched in a stacked configuration—with the lower Dauria spacecraft supporting the upper spacecraft–on an ILS Proton or Angara launch vehicle. With this agreement, ILS would identify spacecraft that could be paired with Dauria’s ATOM spacecraft and together, the companies would assess the technical feasibility. The ATOM spacecraft weigh between 1050-1500 kg and provide satellite TV, telephone and broadband communications.
One of Russia’s few private entrepreneurial space ventures, Dauria Aerospace, is reportedly under criminal investigation along with NPO Lavochkin over work on a satellite project, Izvestia reports. The claim is that Lavochkin billed for work on the Karat-200 project that it had already done under a separate contract with the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The company allegedly shared the results of the work it had done under the Roscosmos contract with […]
A brief roundup of recent news from the Skolkovo Space Cluster outside Moscow: Dauria Aerospace Satellite Contract. Aniara SpaceCom LLC of India has signed a $210 million contract with Dauria Aerospace for two all-electric Ku-band telecommunications satellites. The plan is to launch the satellites on an Indian Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket in late 2017. The purchase is being funded through a direct loan from the Export Insurance Agency […]
ITAR TASS reports that Dauria Aerospace, one of Russia’s few private space companies, will close its offices in the United States and Europe to focus on the Russian market. “Currently, we focus on the Russian part of business and the export potential of space systems manufactured in the Russian subdivision of Dauria Aerospace,” Mikhail Kokorich said. “The European and US parts [of business] are currently gradually scaling down up their […]
Two-stage Aldan rocket. (Credit: Lin Industrial)
Even as Vladimir Putin and his merry band of bureaucrats and oligarchs are busy re-nationalizing the Russian space industry under the control of one fully-owned government company, there is some sign of independent entrepreneurial life within the nation’s space effort.
Start-up companies have sprouted up to launch satellites and to pursue small satellite launch vehicles and space tourism systems. All of these companies appear to be nurtured by a government created and run incubator called Skolkovo that is designed to be Russia’s answer to Silicon Valley.
Business Insider takes a look at Ilya Golubovich and Mike Lousteau of I2BF Global Ventures, a company that’s backing some big-name space start-ups: Known as green tech investors, Golubovich, based in Moscow, and Lousteau, in New York, have fallen in love with the nascent space industry. They’ve backed three space companies so far: Dauria Aerospace, Planetary Resources and CloudEO, with more on the way, making them one of most active […]
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., May 12, 2014 (Dauria Aerospace) — Dauria Aerospace, a multinational aerospace company providing global data, communication and remote sensing information, and Elecnor Deimos, the technology-focused subsidiary of Elecnor, today announced a joint partnership to develop Deimos Perseus, the first satellite constellation to provide frequent imaging of the entire Earth. These satellites will carry high quality multispectral sensors that provide for automated identification of ground features such as crop types, their vigor, and stage in the growing cycle.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2013 (I2BF PR) — I2BF Global Ventures, a leading global technology investment firm, today announced a $20 million Series B investment in Dauria Aerospace, a global satellite services company involved in the manufacturing of micro and nano satellites and the development of machine-to-machine wireless communication and earth observation technologies.