Scout Space Inc., founded in 2019, is a space technology company and in-space observation service provider focused on enabling space safety and transparency. They develop sensor-based systems, including hosted optical payload packages, that allow spacecraft to "see" and understand their surroundings for improved Space Domain Awareness (SDA). Scout Space partners with organizations like Dawn Aerospace, Privateer Space, Slingshot, and Kayhan Space, and their products support national security, collision avoidance, and debris tracking.
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Scout Space has roughly a dozen additional payload missions planned in the next two years, including missions on Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft.
Scout Space aims to support its contracted missions and win large DoD contracts focused on U.S. SDA capabilities, including SSC’s Andromeda program and the Defense Innovation Unit’s Ghost Recon program.
Scout Space develops and manufactures SDA sensors for customer satellites ranging from small cubesats to large GEO spacecraft.
Scout Space plans to build a 2,600-square-foot manufacturing facility in Northern Virginia to ramp up production of satellite sensors.
Scout Space expects to grow its team from about 30 employees to more than 50 in the next 18 months.
Scout Space’s Series A round included participation from Noblis Ventures, Fusion Fund, Decisive Point, and the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation.
Scout Space closed an $18 million Series A round led by Washington Harbour Partners.
Scout Space was founded in 2019.
Scout Space uses sensor data to help customers conduct RPO operations and avoid other objects in orbit.
Scout Space has flown four payloads to orbit since its founding.
The contract requires Scout Space to create a Minimum Viable Product for data assimilation that integrates advanced processing and data exploitation algorithms.
Scout Space’s existing sensing payloads are already augmenting the Space Surveillance Network.
The United States Space Force Space Systems Command Space Safari Office awarded Scout Space Inc. a $3.2 million Tactical Funding Increase Sequential Phase II contract for advanced on-board data processing for space domain awareness.
Scout Space expects the project to be completed within a 24-month timeframe.
The contract includes development of a prototype data management system to improve tracking and custody of resident space objects using novel proprietary techniques built on Scout Space’s existing sensing payloads.
The Scout Space contract includes $1.6 million from SpaceWERX and a private match from Scout Space.
Scout Space’s Owl gimbaled space domain awareness payloads are designed to enhance space autonomy and tactical intelligence by leveraging on-board perception data.
The Scout Space contract targets near-real-time tracking and identification of resident space objects in support of tactical operations.
Blue Origin worked on its first commercial mission with Scout Space.
Dawn Aerospace flew a commercial SDA camera for Scout Space on the same Aurora flight.