{"id":205540,"date":"2025-02-05T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/two-space-startups-have-merged-to-create-the-next-generation-of-telescopes"},"modified":"2025-02-05T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T07:08:08","slug":"two-space-startups-have-merged-to-create-the-next-generation-of-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/two-space-startups-have-merged-to-create-the-next-generation-of-telescopes","title":{"rendered":"Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-space-startups-have-merged-to-create-the-next-generation-of-telescopes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned \u2014 just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d just led <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/12\/06\/oursky-lands-9-5m-seed-to-build-out-developer-platform-for-space-data\/\">a $9.5 million seed round<\/a> for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do.<\/p>\n<p>But when they rolled out the telescopes that night at PlaneWave\u2019s manufacturing facility, he was stuck waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned \u2014 just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He\u2019d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}