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Australian space startup Esper wants to build hyperspectral sats for cheap
Esper's hyperspectral tech is taking off.
Armed with just $1 million in pre-seed funding and assistance from the Australian government in their first mission, Esper is aiming to beat outits better-capitalized peers with lower-cost tech. The goal of this first mission, called Over the Rainbow, is to validate the company’s core technology on a demonstrator spacecraft: a spectrometer system and proprietary software that “reads” the spectral imagery. The startup aims to start launching commercial payloads by late next year or early ’26, and to have 18 satellites in orbit, providing a daily revisit rate, by 2028.
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