NovaWurks is a space technology company that designs, manufactures, and operates satellites based on its SLEGO™ architecture. They are known for their innovative approach to spacecraft design, utilizing mass-producible SLEGO building blocks to create scalable, autonomous, and resilient spacecraft. NovaWurks was selected by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the HALO program and has partnered with organizations like Arkisys and the U.S. Space Force. Keywords associated with NovaWurks include small satellites, on-orbit assembly, and space-based services.
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The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
The Intelligent Space Node (ISN) platform is an evolution of the NationSat platform that Saturn developed three years earlier after investing in NovaWurks.
Saturn developed the NationSat platform after investing in California-based NovaWurks.
Arkisys worked with Germany’s iBoss Space and Novawurks of Los Alamitos, California to develop the Applique interface connector.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Space Force provided NovaWurks three different spacecraft payloads with different thermal and field-of-view requirements to demonstrate quick-turnaround.
NovaWurks' Payload Orbital Delivery Satellite PODSat-1 reached geostationary transfer orbit in 2018.
NovaWurks performed its first in-orbit demonstration in 2017 on the International Space Station as part of the NASA-sponsored Satlet Initial Proofs and Lessons mission.
NovaWurks is working with Saturn Satellite Networks to jointly develop Saturn’s NationSat, a small geostationary communications satellite.
Nationsat is a digital platform for small geostationary satellites based on NovaWurks HISats identical modules that feature all basic satellite components including power, data processing, and pointing.
Saturn purchased 30 percent of NovaWurks in 2019 and obtained an option to buy the remaining 70 percent.
NovaWurks is a California company that has been developing small satellites using modular platforms that can be expanded.
Saturn intends to acquire NovaWurks, a California company that has been developing smallsats using modular expandable platforms.
NovaWurks developed HISats for the NASA SIMPL mission and NanoRacks deployed SIMPL from the International Space Station in 2017.
On 2019-09-09, Saturn Satellite Networks signed a definitive agreement to acquire NovaWurks.
NovaWurks developed the Hyper Integrated Satlet (HISat) modular satellite technology and has tested that technology in orbit since the company was founded in 2011.