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About Dark

Dark was a space company from Paris, France, specialized in space security and protection, founded in 2021. Its activities focused on the development of an air-launched rocket named Interceptor, intending to capture space debris or spy satellites. Interceptor was planned to be launched from a plane in flight from anywhere on the planet and be capable of deploying payloads of up to 300 kilograms into LEO. As of April 2024 the company has raised over $11 million to develop its Interceptor platform.

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Dark was a space company from Paris, France, specialized in space security and protection, founded in 2021. Its activities focused on the development of an air-launched rocket named Interceptor, intending to capture space debris or spy satellites. Interceptor was planned to be launched from a plane in flight from anywhere on the planet and be capable of deploying payloads of up to 300 kilograms into LEO (low Earth orbit). As of April 2024 the company has raised over $11 million to develop its Interceptor platform.

In 2023, it signed a partnership agreement with Bordeaux Airport. The first launch, from France, was planned for 2026.

On October 8, 2025, the company announced to cease its activities .

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“On the wide and silent plain, darkening the bright daylight, she turns midday into darkness.”
— About Inana, in A Hymn to Inana (23rd century BCE) by Enheduanna , lines 49-59 .
“There was an old woman who lived in a room. And, like all of us, was frightened of the dark. But who discovered in a minute last fragment of her life that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on. Object lesson for the more frightened amongst us, in or out, of the Twilight Zone.”
— As spoken by Rod Serling in Twilight Zone Nothing in the Dark written by George Clayton Johnson
“The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, ch. 13
“Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning.”
— "Rust" Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective (TV series), Form and Void, written by Nic Pizzolatto
“Or (the state of a disbeliever) is like the darkness in a vast deep sea, overwhelmed with a great wave topped by a great wave, topped by dark clouds, darkness, one above another, if a man stretches out his hand, he can hardly see it! And he for whom God has not appointed light, for him there is no light.”
— Quran 24:40
“Concern with this world is darkness in the heart, but concern with the Hereafter is light in the heart.”
— Uthman, Al-Isti'ad li Yawm al-Mia'd, p. 9

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