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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Xplore will offer a multi-tiered services solution to customers operating in the cislunar region.
Xplore’s PNT solution leverages the company’s internal platform development to provide critical infrastructure services beyond geosynchronous orbit.
With XLEO, Xplore is offering Space as a Service.
Accion Systems plans to supply miniature ion thrusters for Xplore Inc.’s 150-kilogram LEO Xcraft (XLEO) satellite scheduled to launch in 2023 under an agreement announced on 2021-08-10.
Xplore is a member of a team that won a $2,000,000 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts award for an exoplanet mission called Solar Gravity Lens Focus.
Xplore received a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contract in April to study how to establish a positioning, navigation, and timing system for cislunar space.
NOAA awarded Xplore a contract on 2020-05-27 valued at $670,112 for a six-month study to evaluate the feasibility of sending a commercial mission to L1 to provide early detection of solar events threatening the power grid and telecommunications satellites.