Lunar Outpost is planning an additional low Earth orbit demonstration mission to test autonomous swarm operations for the U.S. Air and Space Forces.
The Planar-array SBSP architecture can reduce night-sky impact because it does not rely on intentional solar reflection and can operate in an orbit up to 100 times higher than the heliostat swarm.
The two leading space-based solar power architectures being developed by companies today are the modular planar array and the monolithic laser swarm.
Viasat’s Swarm 1 contract requires full ground station infrastructure and five years of continuous operations and sustainment services.
The Space Force awarded a combined $437.7 million to Viasat and Intelsat General Communications for the initial Swarm 1 phase.
Viasat’s Swarm 1 contract requires the company to provide ground station infrastructure and five years of continuous operations and sustainment services.
Viasat’s Swarm 1 award covers the manufacturing, launch, and operations of an advanced small maneuverable Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite for resilient anti-jam tactical communications.
Viasat’s Swarm 1 contract requires full ground station infrastructure plus five years of continuous operations and sustainment services.
Viasat was selected as a prime contractor under the Space Force’s Swarm 1 Delivery Order for the Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global program.
The Space Force awarded a combined $437.7 million under the initial Swarm 1 phase to Viasat and Intelsat General Communications to produce the first two operational satellites of the system.
The Swarm 1 award tasks Viasat with manufacturing, launching, and operating an advanced small maneuverable Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite for resilient anti-jam tactical communications.
Viasat was selected as a prime contractor under the Space Force’s Swarm 1 Delivery Order.
Viasat was selected as a prime contractor under the Space Force’s Swarm 1 Delivery Order for the PTS-G program.
The Swarm 1 award tasks Viasat with manufacturing, launch, and operations of a small maneuverable geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite for resilient anti-jam tactical communications.
Lunar Outpost will use its Series B capital to scale the Starweave swarm software and the Stargate command-and-control platform.
LUMINA swarm is a Politecnico di Torino project that addresses the need for an autonomous robotic workforce on the lunar surface.
FrontierSat carries a Mini Plasma Imager based on technology from ESA’s Swarm mission.
A similar European Space Agency launch of the Swarm mission aboard a Rokot rocket had a contract value of €27.1 million.
The CLICK mission targets the ability for a swarm of small satellites to coordinate via high-speed crosslinks with precision timing and ranging.
The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission has historically been used for World Magnetic Model updates with large, expensive government satellites.