• - Aalyria announced a $100 million funding round Feb. • 23 that values the Californian venture at $1.3 billion, supporting deployment of laser terminals and software for dynamically routing data across space, air and ground networks. • The funding follows growing demand for narrow, high-throughput directional links that can improve speed and security but also add operational complexity as motion, weather and other line-of-sight constraints risk disrupting connectivity. • Aalyria, spun out of Google’s parent Alphabet four years ago, says its Spacetime platform can coordinate those links in real time, allocating capacity and routing traffic as satellites, aircraft and ground terminals move. • Spacetime is also designed to help multi-orbit networks respond more quickly to disruptions, such as shifting capacity toward areas where terrestrial infrastructure has been damaged. • While Alphabet previously used the software for its scrapped Loon internet network of high-altitude balloons, Telesat’s low Earth orbit (LEO) Lightspeed constellation, which the Canadian geostationary operator aims to roll out next year, is set to be the first to use Spacetime commercially.

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  • TAMPA, Fla. - Aalyria announced a $100 million funding round Feb. 23 that values the Californian venture at $1.3 billion, supporting deployment of laser terminals and software for dynamically routing data across space, air and ground networks. The funding follows growing demand for narrow, high-throughput directional links that can improve speed and security but also add operational complexity as motion, weather and other line-of-sight constraints risk disrupting connectivity. Aalyria, spun out of Google’s parent Alphabet four years ago, says its Spacetime platform can coordinate those links i

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