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Superpowers continue to fire offensive weapons into space, from China’s testing of a hypersonic fractional orbital bombardment system to Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) this week, aimed at crashing into and changing the orbit of a moonlet.
Last Friday, we looked at the debris fallout of Russia blowing apart one of its own satellites in a test of an anti-satellite missile, and described Astroscale’s efforts to clean up space junk, using a magnetic tow bar.
On Thursday, the London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust announced it had made a $12.5m investment in Astroscale, part of a $109m series F round for the Japanese company.
While Astroscale is dedicated to cleaning up the environment in space, another recent Seraphim ESG investment is focused on our planet. The UK’s Satellite Vu aims to be “the Earth’s thermometer in space”.
Using infrared and thermal imaging tech, its satellites will be able to…
