ロケット事業と通信衛星事業を通じて総合宇宙インフラ企業を目指すインターステラテクノロジズ株式会社は、株式会社三井住友銀行、スパークス・アセット・マネジメント株式会社が運営するスペースフロンティア2号ファンド、ジャパネットホールディングス株式会社、既存株主を引受先とする第三者割当増資65億円、金融機関からの借入24億円により、シリーズFで89億円の追加資金調達を実施しましたのでお知らせいたします。
In addition, we have signed a business partnership agreement with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to support the construction of supply chains in the space-related industry. This marks the bank’s first investment in a space-related startup company.
Interstellar Technologies is a leading private space transportation company in Japan, and aims to be the first company in Japan to vertically integrate rocket and communications satellite businesses. In the rocket business, the development of the small satellite launch rocket ZERO has been adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s “Small Business Innovation Promotion Project (SBIR Phase 3)”, and the company was selected as one of three companies that passed the initial stage gate screening. In addition, we have entered into a business partnership with Woven by Toyota Corporation , which invested in us at the first close of Series F, to transform the structure of rockets from one-off production to industrial products that can withstand frequent launches, and are accelerating our efforts to establish a space transportation service that can be launched frequently and at low cost.
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Meanwhile, the satellite business specializes in communications satellites, which require a large number of launches and can be maximized by being owned by a rocket company. The US rocket company SpaceX is growing its business with the “Starlink” internet service via communications satellites, while インターステラテクノロジズ は、総務省の委託事業や宇宙航空研究開発機構(JAXA)の宇宙戦略ファンドを活用しながら研究開発を進めています。今回調達した資金は、ロケットZEROの開発・製造および人工衛星の研究開発に充当し、両事業の更なる拡大を目指します。
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