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- Aug 6, 2026
Northwood Space’s Bridgit Mendler on the next chapter for space startups
Now, SpaceX is a public company with a trillion-plus market cap that just reported its first earnings. And there’s a whole new generation of founders looking to build out a space economy that once seemed like science fiction, like Impulse Space’s Tom Mueller, Apex’s Ian Cinnamon, and Northwood Space’s Bridgit Mendler. Mendler—a Harvard and MIT grad who cofounded Northwood in 2022—draws attention for her childhood as a Disney Channel star. But she’s chasing one of the most granular (and most vital) space economy problems: How do we move more data reliably between satellites in space and Earth—without the process getting absurdly expensive? Fortune connected with Mendler this week, as she offered clear-eyed best and worst-case scenarios for space startups like hers.
- Valley of DepthJun 24, 2026
The Global Ground Layer, with Bridgit Mendler (CEO of Northwood)
Bridgit Mendler took an unconventional path to founding a space infrastructure company, but it led her to one of the industry’s most overlooked bottlenecks: the ground systems connecting satellites to Earth. Now, she’s building Northwood to modernize that critical layer of the space economy, the part that doesn’t get the headlines but matters as much as anything happening above it. Northwood recently announced its new Prism product, and we get into the business model, the competitive landscape, the government bet, and one of the most critical questions: if Starlink and Kuiper have already built their own versions of what Northwood is selling, who’s actually buying?
- Jun 23, 2026
Northwood Space Debuts Parabolic Antenna, Designed for High-Volume Data
Northwood Space announced a new ground system design this week, the Prism parabolic antenna, designed for high-volume data. Prism is a 2.4 meter parabolic antenna, designed for high-volume connectivity for use cases like enterprise back backhaul, direct-to-cellular, and compute in space. It covers S-, X- and Ka-bands, and the company plans to scale into higher frequencies. Northwood said that Prism can deliver bi-directional, high-throughput performance across multiple orbits.
- Jun 22, 2026
Exclusive: Northwood Unveils New Antenna, Expanded Network Capacity
Northwood Space unveiled a new satellite ground antenna today—called Prism—as part of an effort to significantly increase its ground station network capacity over the coming years. The new hardware comes amid Northwood’s rapid global expansion of its physical ground station footprint, and will allow the company to support more data downlinks over a wider range of frequencies. “We need to treat the future of space like the internet, where you’re talking about very intense data loads, you’re talking about high levels of reliability, and treating space like a high-utilization resource,” CEO Bridgit Mendler told Payload.