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Volta Space Technologies

Montreal startup planning satellites around the Moon that collect sunlight and beam it by laser to rovers and landers on the surface, so they can keep working through the two-week lunar night.

SpaceQ reports an undisclosed seed round in 2022; no date or amount is public, so it is not listed as a round.

Products, by altitude

The Moon · 384,400 km from Earth

  • Announced

    LightGrid

    Satellites beaming solar power by laser to the Moon's surface

  • Testing

    LightPort

    Receiver that turns laser light into power on the Moon

Milestones

  • Dec 2025 SpaceQ reported a CAD 978,822 Canadian Space Agency award to fly a LightPort receiver on Firefly's Blue Ghost 2 lander, plus a NATO DIANA 2026 place. Company statement⁠1

Sources

  1. SpaceQDec 29, 2025

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