2023年4月20日

开普勒通信——公司正在建设互联网空间——宣布了9200万美元的C系列资金由IA Ventures。自2016年以来,该公司已筹集了超过2亿美元的股本在Costanoa企业的支持下,迦南合作伙伴,部落首都BDC资本的工业创新风险基金,和其他一些主要投资者。这一轮融资,开普勒将在2024年推出一个光学数据中继基础设施,补充其现有射频网络。和开普勒的光通信基础设施将使用2 near-orthogonal中继卫星在太阳同步轨道卫星的飞机每架飞机不断使用SDA-compatible光学连接inter-satellite链接。光学服务将在2025年第一季度运营和提供给客户。开普勒网络将简化在轨通信与网络基础设施设计作为网络交流点为空间数据(IXP)继电器。星座和互联网接入技术将实时数据与航天器,使高速数据传递通过SDA-standard光学终端。公司计划推出两种探路者卫星在2023年的秋天,测试和验证光学通信技术发达的开普勒星座。和公司的最新卫星建立在其现有的飞行遗产星座,总计21颗卫星发射后两个额外的飞船在2023年4月中旬。开普勒所提供的客户服务水平协议(SLA)和交钥匙解决方案满足完整的通信需求的使命。 And the agreement includes communications payloads for both optical and RF, spectrum licenses, security, ground infrastructure, and edge computing. KEY QUOTES: “Exponentially decreasing launch costs make space more accessible than ever, but connectivity beyond Earth is still costly, challenging, and inconsistent. The Kepler Network solves this by providing a fast, open, developer-friendly network enabling ‘it-just-works’ connectivity between any asset in space and back to Earth—and someday to Mars and beyond! With proven customer demand for their high-speed optical network, we are excited to lead this funding round to enable Kepler to continue its rapid growth and achieve profitability.” – Brad Gillespie, general partner at IA Ventures “Since our foundation, Kepler has been dedicated to enabling the future of space communications; working tirelessly to create the infrastructure needed for real-time, always-available access to space assets. As we build out The Kepler Network, we are solving challenges the industry faces and simplifying mission communications by bringing modern Internet capabilities into space. Internet services on Earth completely transformed civilization, and we believe extending the Internet to space will have the same far-reaching impact.” – Mina Mitry, chief executive officer for Kepler Trending on Pulse 2.0