Virgin Orbit
4022 E Conant St, Long Beach, CA, 90808, United States
Overview
Virgin Orbit focuses on providing launch services for small satellites. Virgin Orbit operates LauncherOne, a flexible launch service for commercial and government-built satellites. It focuses on dedicated launches of small satellites (smallsats). Virgin Orbit develops vehicles to fly private astronauts, research experiments, and satellites into space—democratizing access to space for the benefit of life on Earth.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Aerospace
- Satellite Communication
- Space Travel
Investment portfolio
- SatRevolution
Led · Series B · Dec 2021
SatRevolution is a Polish company founded in 2016 that designs, manufactures and operates nanosatellites and provides data analytics for Earth observation. Its nanosatellite technologies include the Stork medium-resolution earth observation platform and ScopeSat, a deployable high-resolution telescope with on-board processing. The company has launched two satellites with Virgin Orbit and has two more awaiting launch as part of scheduled missions. SatRev is building a real-time Earth Observation constellation and aims to deploy 1,024 nanosatellites into low Earth orbit by 2026. SatRev and Virgin Orbit intend to offer up to 500 kg of hosted payload services on LauncherOne rockets and turnkey rapid-deployment space services. The company reports a pipeline of contracts exceeding $50 million and a secured backlog of approximately $18 million; customers and partners named include SkyWatch, Spiral Blue, Neumann Space, SkyServe, UP42 and AIKO.