Aphelion Orbitals was founded in 2016 to develop low-cost nanosatellite launch systems and provide regular, scheduled orbital access. The company aimed to mass-produce launch vehicles and offer on-demand orbital delivery services. Aphelion Orbitals also developed Cubesat components such as solar panels and spacecraft buses. Although it secured seed funding, the company appears to be defunct as of 2023.
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At aphelion, 2025 LS 2 and 2025 MX 348 are about 1,000 times farther from the Sun than Earth is.
Artemis II reached aphelion on April 2, 2026 at 11:43:30 UTC.
Aphelion Orbitals performs IPC 610 Class 3 assembly on its solar panels and uses gold-plated, shielded FR4 printed circuit boards.
Aphelion's propulsion team developed and produced a line of 250 N rocket engines for testing the Trailblazer propulsion system.
The Aphelion Primary Bus Module (PBM) is an integrated EPS and onboard computer solution designed for mission-critical, volume-constrained CubeSat environments and provides mass and volume savings.
Aphelion's triple-junction solar panels use 30.5% triple-junction radiation-hardened cells that are individually characterized and qualified for GEO use and include light and temperature sensors.