Revenue Growth Year-over-Year
Total revenue for Q1 2026 was $359,000, up 51% from $238,000 in Q1 2025, driven by new customer contracts including Lonestar Data Holdings and Teledyne Marine and milestone-based revenue recognition.
Reduction in Cost of Revenue
Cost of revenue decreased to $1.4 million in Q1 2026, a 25% reduction from $1.9 million in Q1 2025, primarily due to lower satellite and related software depreciation and improved manufacturing cost discipline.
Improved Gross Loss
Gross loss improved to $1.1 million in Q1 2026 from $1.6 million in Q1 2025, a 36% improvement. Adjusting for depreciation included in cost of revenue, gross loss improved to $531,000 from $792,000 year-over-year.
Net Loss Improvement
Net loss narrowed to $5.2 million in Q1 2026 from $6.4 million in Q1 2025, an improvement of $1.2 million or 19%, benefitting from elimination of asset-based loan expense and higher interest income on cash holdings.
Balance Sheet Strengthened with Significant Capital Raise
Subsequent to quarter end, Sidus closed a best-efforts registered direct offering raising $58.5 million gross proceeds (April 21, 2026), providing material liquidity to fund working capital, technology development and reduce near-term financing risk.
Debt Elimination / Clean Capital Structure
Company repaid its asset-backed line of credit in January 2026 and entered the year with $43.2 million in cash and no outstanding term debt; cash was $27.3 million as of March 31, 2026 prior to the April raise.
On-orbit Technical and Operational Milestones
Sidus launched 3 LizzieSat satellites (Mar 2024–Mar 2025). LizzieSat-3 completed bus-level commissioning, collected AIS data, and returned initial imagery from an HEO camera demonstrating sub-5-meter resolution — a key step toward subscription-based data services.
Product & Partnership Progress: Fortis VPX and Strategic Collaborations
Advanced Fortis VPX modular computing platform with multiple commercial and defense evaluations; strategic collaboration with Microchip Technology to accelerate Fortis Command and data handling; expansion of StarVault payload agreement with Lonestar and MOU with Simera Sense for AI-enabled hyperspectral imaging.
Governance and Program Pathways
Appointed Kelle Wendling to the Board to strengthen government contracting expertise; awarded placement on the Missile Defense Agency 10-year SHIELD IDIQ contract, creating a pathway to pursue defense task orders for onboard processing and modular compute.