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MONTREAL and MCLEAN, Va., June 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NorthStar Earth & Space Inc. (“NorthStar” or the “Company”), a global leader in Space Situational Awareness (“SSA”) and Space Domain Awareness (“SDA”), and Viking Acquisition Corp. I (“Viking”) (NYSE: VACI), a special purpose acquisition company, announced today the public filing of their joint registration statement on Form F-4 (the “Registration Statement”) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in connection with their proposed business combination (the “Business Combination Agreement”) announced on April 17, 2026, available here. Stewart Bain, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NorthStar, said, “The public filing of our registration statement represents an important milestone in the process of becoming a public company. The market demand for NorthStar's differentiated space-based intelligence platform requires accelerating our long-term growth strategy. Increased access to capital and global awareness, inherent with a public company, will enable us to expand capabilities and deepen customer support by delivering more critical insights to stakeholders through our services.”

Space economy has been growing rapidly (estimated $1.8T in 2035E); undetected and unmonitored space objects put national security, national sovereignty, and vitality of the space economy at risk, calling for robust infrastructure to protect high-value assets NorthStar is a highly differentiated space and satellite data analytics company established to monitor and react to active space threats, recognized as mission-critical by key defense, civil, and commercial customers Transaction includes a fully committed $30 million common stock PIPE anchored by Cartesian Capital Group, with participation from leading Canadian and U.S. institutional investors Transaction is expected to provide the business with minimum gross proceeds of $30 million, before giving effect to any additional funds remaining in the trust account New capital enables NorthStar to accelerate deployment of its space-based sensor network and scale its data and analytics platform MONTREAL and NEW YORK, April 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NorthStar Earth & Space Inc. (“NorthStar” or the “Company”), a global leader in Space Situational Awareness (“SSA”) and Space Domain Awareness (“SDA”), and Viking Acquisition Corp. I (“Viking”) (NYSE: VACI), a special purpose acquisition company, announced that they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”). Upon closing of the transaction, shares of the combined company are expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “NSTR”.