Xplore Inc., founded in 2018, is a dual-use space company and "Space as a Service" provider, offering hosted payloads, communication relay services, and exclusive datasets via its multi-mission spacecraft. Xplore operates a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites equipped with sensors to deliver remote sensing data products, including hyperspectral data for Earth observation, space domain awareness, maritime domain awareness, and astronomy. The company partners with organizations like Accion Systems and UP42, serving national space agencies, national security agencies, commercial companies and universities. Key keywords include: space-based services, satellite operations, data analytics, Earth observation, and space exploration.
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Customers can obtain more informative data layers from Xplore’s data fusion product.
Xplore’s XCRAFT satellite platform is engineered to collect data using multiple instruments including still and video imagery, hyperspectral, ultraviolet, and infrared spectroscopy.
The agreement will enable direct access to Xplore’s satellite tasking and archive of high-resolution data.
Xplore is a Redmond, Washington-based startup preparing to launch an Earth-observation satellite to gather hyperspectral data and high-resolution video imagery.
Azure Orbital created an intelligent hosting platform software that runs on spacecraft operated by Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space, and Xplore.
Xplore Inc. completed a satellite testing initiative using Microsoft Azure Orbital to conduct satellite operations for NOAA’s NOAA-18 satellite.
Xplore acquired Kubos, the developer of Major Tom, on 2022-04-04.
Xplore Inc. completed a satellite testing initiative using Microsoft Azure Orbital to conduct satellite operations for the NOAA-18 satellite.
Xplore operates out of a facility in Redmond, Washington.
Xplore operates a 22,000-square-foot satellite manufacturing facility in Redmond, Washington.
Xplore will use the Major Tom platform for its first mission launching this fall and for future missions.
Xplore Inc. acquired Kubos Corp., including the Major Tom flight control software platform, on 2022-04-04.
In his role at Xplore, Tyler Browder will continue to build and grow the Major Tom platform into an expanded service offering.
As of February, Xplore had raised $16,200,000 since its establishment in 2017.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Xplore a $670,112 contract in 2020 to evaluate the feasibility of sending a commercial mission to L1 for early detection of solar events.
Xplore plans to demonstrate existing PNT techniques and algorithmic solutions on its 2021 lunar mission to help establish a distributed set of commercial and government PNT nodes across cislunar space.
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts awarded a $2,000,000 grant in 2020 to a team that includes NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, and Xplore for work on technology to harness the sun’s gravitational field to gather imagery of planets orbiting distant stars.
Xplore is preparing to launch its first satellite 2022 on an Orbital Astronautics Ltd. nanosatellite.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Xplore a $50,000 contract in 2020 to study positioning, navigation and timing solutions for cislunar space.
National Security Innovation Capital, a hardware development accelerator within the Defense Innovation Unit, awarded Xplore a $2,000,000 contract to accelerate development of Xcraft.