Exotrail is a French space company specializing in on-orbit transportation solutions for small satellites. They design, develop, and operate mobility solutions, including electric propulsion systems (ExoMG™), mission simulation and operation software (ExoOPS™), and orbital transfer vehicles (SpaceVan™). Their services aim to optimize satellite deployment, increase performance, and reduce space pollution. Exotrail has partnered with companies like Thales Alenia Space and Prométhée Earth Intelligence and receives support from CNES.
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Exotrail has raised more than 20,000,000 EUR in funding.
Exotrail plans investments in its on-orbit service vehicle SpaceVan™, which is scheduled to fly at the end of 2023.
One of Exotrail’s propulsion systems is scheduled to fly around the Moon in 2022 on a U.S. satellite built by York Space Systems for Intuitive Machines.
The full list of New Symphonie collaborators includes AEROSPACELAB, ANYWAVES, AVIO, CAILABS, DE-CIX, EXOLAUNCH, EXOTRAIL, FRESNEL ALLIANCE, GOMSPACE, GREENERWAVE, INTEGRASYS, KSAT, LOFT ORBITAL, QEST ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY, SATCONSULT, SECURE-IC, SENER, SITAEL, TESAT, and TRANSATEL.
Exotrail will deliver its ExoMG – cluster² thruster to York Space Systems in 2022 under a contract signed in August.
York Space Systems plans to rely on Exotrail electric propulsion for a mission to provide Earth-to-moon communications services from cislunar orbit.
Exotrail and Thales Alenia Space signed the contract in January.
Exotrail signed a license contract with Thales Alenia Space for ExoOPS™, its simulation and operation software dedicated to space mobility.
Exotrail's product development strategy aims to position ExoOPS™ as a leading orbital mechanics tool supporting deployment of complex missions from the early design phase to in-orbit operation.
Thales Alenia Space is the latest addition to Exotrail's list of customers, which also includes CNES and Eutelsat.
ExoOPS™ – Mission Design is built on Exotrail's in-house flight dynamics and object-oriented core, ExoOPS™-Engine.
ExoOPS™ – Mission Design is Exotrail’s simulation and mission design environment commercialized as part of the ExoOPS™ software suite.
David Henri is the Chairman of Exotrail.
Exotrail plans additional demonstrations in 2021 to show altitude change, inclination correction, station-keeping, plane change, collision avoidance, anomaly response, and de-orbit capability.
Exotrail performed an altitude change demonstration in December 2020 during the mission.
Exotrail conducted an In-Orbit Demonstration mission launched to Low Earth Orbit on 2020-11-07 aboard a PSLV rocket.
Exotrail raised 11,000,000 EUR in an investment round announced in July.
Exotrail signed contracts in 2020 worth more than 1,000,000 EUR with customers including the European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES, and AAC Clyde Space.
CNES signed a software licensing contract with Exotrail this summer to use ExoOPS – Mission Design.
CNES mission design analysis and system engineering teams are using ExoOPS – Mission Design advanced functionalities developed by Exotrail.