TOKYO -- Nobu Okada, founder and CEO of satellite startup Astroscale, was gearing up for another round of fundraising earlier last year when the coronavirus pandemic started disrupting the company's supply chain. Then came more bad news: OneWeb, a major U.K. satellite startup, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. after failing to secure funding from its biggest backer, SoftBank.
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