Stellar Exploration is a small aerospace company that focuses on innovative, low-cost space science and applications, creating hardware for demanding missions. They engineer and manufacture space vehicles components and payloads and specialize in propulsion systems, power systems, and finite element analysis. The company serves commercial, NASA, and DOD markets. Stellar Exploration designs, integrates, and tests spacecraft hardware and has delivered power systems for ICEYE's Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite constellation.
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CAPSTONE uses a monopropellant hydrazine-fueled propulsion system developed and implemented by Stellar Exploration Inc.
LightSail 2 was built by a group of partners including Stellar Exploration, Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Georgia Tech.
Tomas Svitek, president of Stellar Exploration, advocates focusing on authentication techniques (including Secure Shell tunneling, Transport Layer Security, passwords, and tokens) to ensure only authorized commands are executed for many low-cost spacecraft missions.
NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration program provided funding for Stellar Exploration to develop the new thruster.
Tomas Svitek, president of Stellar Exploration, identified potential applications for the new thruster including a small robotic lunar lander, a microsatellite moving from geostationary transfer orbit to geostationary orbit, and a satellite operating in a Molniya orbit.