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Sen

Space TV for humanity

Sen operates in the media & education sector of the space industry, is headquartered in United Kingdom, was founded in 2014, is at Seed stage, employs 1-10 people.

Sen at a glance

StatusActivechecked August 2026
SectorMedia & Education
HeadquartersUnited Kingdom
Founded2014
StageSeed
Team size1-10
Websitesen.com

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We interviewed Charles Black

Why We Need To Democratize Space And How Sen Will Do This With Real-Time Space Television

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Timeline & funding

  1. March 2024Achievement
    SpaceTV-1’s 4K cameras reach the ISS on CRS-30 and are installed on the Bartolomeo platform↗
  2. December 2022Funding
    Seed: GBP 2M; Mercia cites over GBP 7M raised to date↗Led by Mercia, with existing investors including SpaceFund
  3. 2019Achievement
    Successful demonstration in orbit
  4. 2017Achievement
    SkyRider Mini prototype developed and app designed
  5. 2017Achievement
    Angel investment
  6. 2016Achievement
    High altitude camera
  7. 2014Company
    Company founded by Charles Black
  8. 2008Achievement
    Sen name born
  9. 1990Achievement
    The story begins

Mission

Live and near-real-time video of Earth streamed from cameras on satellites, made for the public rather than for analysts.

Sen streams live video of Earth from space, free. Three 4K cameras mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station, launched on a SpaceX cargo flight in March 2024, feed a continuous stream on sen.com and YouTube: the horizon, the ground passing below, and a docking port. Charles Black, a lawyer who left law for space, founded the company in London and spent a decade getting to this point.

The bet is that live video of Earth is a mass medium waiting to exist, a kind of news utility, and that whoever operates the cameras first will own it. Earlier flights proved the pieces one at a time: six cameras hosted on a commercial satellite in 2019, then the company's own cubesat in 2022.

The product works and the audience is real; the business model is not yet visible. The stream is free, no customers are named, and the constellation that was the original plan has stopped at one cubesat. The flagship cameras also live on a station due to retire around 2030, which gives the current arrangement a horizon.

Team

  • Charles Black · Founder & CEO

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