Lifeline Ventures: Investment Portfolio & Startup News

NewOrbit raises £14m in a Series A led by Voyager Ventures to build the first commercial satellites for very low Earth orbit

NewOrbit builds satellites designed to operate in very low Earth orbit (VLEO), a band of near-Earth space at 200–300km altitude that has historically been inaccessible for commercial missions. Its satellites are engineered to withstand the aerodynamic drag, atomic oxygen corrosion, and destabilising torques that have made this orbit commercially unviable, enabling customers to access higher-resolution imagery and faster data connectivity at lower cost.