2023-11-14 08:00:00
Barely a year after completing a 7 million euro fundraising round, the Toulouse start-up U-Space is taking a new step towards the industrialization of new generation nanosatellites: the construction of a pilot plant of 1,000 m² in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), the first stone of which was symbolically laid on November 9. The work will last until March 2024. The new factory, the investment of which is not communicated by the company, will be operational from spring 2024 with a gradual establishment of production lines and testing resources. automated. The objective: to reach the rate of one satellite per day, therefore more than 300 satellites per year, by the end of 2026.
At the same time, the start-up is strengthening its teams at high speed. “We currently employ around sixty employees, compared to around forty at the end of 2022 and we should be at least around a hundred by the end of 2024», Announces Fabien Apper, co-founder and president of U-Space.
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