SpaceX’s acquisition of Swarm is paying off with new Starlink thrusters

Earlier this week, SpaceX released more information about the new argon Hall thrusters that will power the Starlink V2 mini satellites, an innovation that likely has much to do with the company’s acquisition of Swarm Technologies in 2021.
The deal, which closed in July 2021, was an extremely rare move for SpaceX. Swarm – which manufactures and operates ultra-small satellites for IoT devices – remains the company’s only acquisition in its 21-year history. It was also notable because, relatively speaking, Swarm was still quite a young company: when the deal closed, the startup had around 30 empl

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