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Northwood Space Raises $100 Million, Wins $49.8 Million Space Force Deal to Boost Satellite Control Capacity

The moves signal rising demand for commercial ground stations to ease strain on the aging Satellite Control Network.

Portal phased array antennas are manufactured at Northwood Space.
This image from Rosetta?s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera, released by the European Space Agency ESA on Thursday Nov. 13, 2014 shows the Philae lander a Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014 The image shows details of the lander, including the deployment of the three legs and of the antennas. The lander scored a historic first Wednesday, touching down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade-long, 6.4 billion-kilometer (4 billion-mile) journey through space aboard its mother ship, Rosetta. The comet is streaking through space at 41,000 mph (66,000 kph) some 311 million miles (500 million kilometers) from Earth. (AP Photo/ESA/Rosetta/Philae)

Overview

  • Washington Harbour Partners led the Series B round, with Andreessen Horowitz co-leading and participation from investors including Alpine Space Ventures, Founders Fund, Balerion Space Ventures, Fulcrum and 137 Ventures.
  • Northwood secured a roughly $49.8 million Space Force award over three years through Space Systems Command’s Joint Antenna Marketplace to augment the Satellite Control Network.
  • The company’s Portal phased-array ground stations support eight simultaneous satellite links per site today, with a next-generation version targeting 10 to 12 beams across LEO, MEO and GEO.
  • Northwood provides a vertically integrated ground service that combines in-house hardware manufacturing with orchestration, scheduling and automation software for satellite uplink and downlink operations.
  • Portal units are manufactured at a 35,000-square-foot Torrance facility, with eight produced in December 2025, operational systems live on two continents and plans for additional sites across five continents.