Overview
- The company said the Series B was led by Washington Harbour Partners and tops $75 million, with new and existing backers including Aurelia Foundry, Forward Deployed VC, FoundersX, Center15 Capital, Magnetar, HOF Capital, and Industrious Ventures.
- Turion plans to lift production from about eight spacecraft per year to a target of 40 and to scale its Starfire software, which runs mission planning, autonomous tasking, and constellation control.
- The startup reports two successful missions, with DROID.002 deployed in March to track orbital objects and DROID.001 deorbited after a three-year run.
- Turion says its satellites have delivered more than 40,000 images and that it has won 28 U.S. government contracts across the Space Force, NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office.
- A next-generation craft called Droid Viper is in development with a first launch as early as 2027, a forward-looking goal tied to expanding on-orbit imaging of other satellites for space domain awareness, the practice of spotting and understanding activity in space.