{"id":107410,"date":"2025-10-31T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/107410\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:37:11","slug":"endurosat-raises-104-million-to-scale-production-of-larger-small-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/107410\/","title":{"rendered":"EnduroSat raises $104 million to scale production of larger small satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Bulgaria\u2019s EnduroSat announced another $104 million in venture capital funding Oct. 30 to scale up its small satellite manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The company has now raised more than $150 million since it was founded in 2015, including about $49 million in May to expand from producing a little over a dozen cubesats per month to building two 200-500-kilogram Gen3 Endurance spacecraft per day.<\/p>\n<p>The extra funds will help ramp up production at a recently opened 17,500-square-meter facility in Sofia, Bulgaria\u2019s capital. EnduroSat said the expansion will support growing demand for small- to mid-sized satellite constellations, ranging from dozens to hundreds of spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Gen 3 avionics are already successfully accumulating flight heritage in orbit,\u201d EnduroSat CEO Raycho Raychev said via email, after earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/endurosat-raises-49-million-to-mass-produce-larger-satellites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outlining plans to fly two validation missions<\/a> for the platform this year.<\/p>\n<p>He added that initial customer flights for the platform are expected early next year, but did not provide details.<\/p>\n<p>Early-stage investors Riot Ventures, Google Ventures, Lux Capital and Shrug Capital participated in the latest funding round, alongside the European Innovation Council Fund, a European Union-backed accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jason-rainbow\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jason-Rainbow-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJason Rainbow writes about satellite telecom, finance and commercial markets for SpaceNews. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. Previously, he was Group Editor-in-Chief for Finance Information Group,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jason-rainbow\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jason Rainbow\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Bulgaria\u2019s EnduroSat announced another $104 million in venture capital funding Oct. 30 to scale up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[70162,63,9409,85,46,70163,141,53349,3443,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-107410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-endurosat","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-fundraising","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-satellite-manufacturing","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-small-satellites","16":"tag-sn","17":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}