"Former Disney Star Bridgit Mendler Launches Space Data Startup with $6M in Funding and Reveals Secret Adoption"

Former Disney star Bridgit Mendler has launched Northwood Space, a space startup with over $6 million in funding, aiming to create a "data highway between Earth and space." The company plans to build satellite ground stations for fast production and deployment flexibility, addressing a bottleneck in the space industry. Mendler, who holds a PhD from MIT and a law degree from Harvard, co-founded Northwood with her husband and is set to conduct the company's first test with a spacecraft in orbit later this year.