Pulse Space and Ravee Optics secure funding for orbital power and laser inter-satellite links. Tech investment markets continue to show interest in dual-use optical space technologies for communications and power; the third application remains unspecified in the supplied text.
Pulse Space secures a $40 million U.S. Space Force contract to develop laser-based technologies for future space missions. The development scope includes remote power, communications, and space situational awareness, bringing all three capabilities under the contract’s laser technology program.
Pulse Space, a Washington-based startup building laser power-beaming systems for other satellites in orbit, announces a $40 million Space Force contract to develop laser technology.
Pulse Space says it has received a $40 million award from the U.S. Space Force to develop laser-based power-beaming and orbital-tracking technologies. Founded in 2022, the Bellevue, Washington-based startup is developing a system that collects energy with solar arrays and transmits it by laser to remote nodes.