PARIS — Satellite 3D-built payload-component provider Swissto12 has raised $18.5 million in Series B financing from three private-equity and venture-capital companies to position itself for a growing business in LEO broadband constellations and micro-GEO satellites.
Swissto12 has launched its first payload hardware in space — parts of a deployable Ka-band antenna on the AAC Clyde Space-built NSLSat-1 6U cubesat owned by NSLComm of Israel — and it is reported to functioning as designed after its July launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket:
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