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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On 2022-09-01, Scout Space partnered with Privateer Space to collaborate on space situational awareness services for satellite operators.
Scout Space designed a space-sensing cubesat known as OVER-Sat that is expected to launch before the end of 2023.
The first Scout Space sensing payload launched in June 2021 on Orbit Fab’s on-orbit refueling spacecraft and is currently in operation.
SCOUT was awarded a $44,500,000 contract for the Tetra-5 mission through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) in collaboration with Hera Systems and Booz Allen Hamilton and led by Orion Space Solutions.
SCOUT Space Inc. was granted two STTR Phase I awards through the Orbital Prime program by SpaceWERX.
Each of the two contracts won by Scout Space is worth $250,000.
In 2021, Orbit Fab deployed an on-orbit refueling vehicle equipped with Scout Space’s spaceflight vision system.
SCOUT Space will work with AFRL/RIE (Intelligence Systems Division) and Space Operations Command Delta 2 to advance classical space domain awareness metric observation tasking and catalog augmentation using space-based sensing.
In March 2022, SCOUT Space signed a Commercial SSA Data Sharing Agreement with USSPACECOM that includes the 18th Space Defense Squadron under Delta 2.
Scout Space plans to launch additional vision sensors on upcoming missions, including two planned with the space transportation startup Momentus.
Scout Space won a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Space Force on 2022-07-22.
SCOUT Space’s in-space products and services were first launched in June 2021 and allow spacecraft to detect and understand nearby objects.
Col. Marc Brock, Commander of Space Force Delta 2, supports the potential of SCOUT Space’s unclassified, space-based non-Earth imaging capability and automatically generated commercial analytic products and services to become critical enablers for Delta 2’s mission.
Momentus selected Scout to deliver spacecraft vision capabilities for upcoming missions and Scout won a $50,000 U.S. Air Force contract to demonstrate space-collected data for debris tracking and collision predictions.
SCOUT Inc. has been selected for a NASA SBIR award to enhance relative navigation for autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking.
Momentus selected SCOUT in December 2021 to deliver spacecraft vision capabilities for its upcoming missions.
SCOUT Inc. and the U.S. Department of Defense, through United States Space Command, signed an agreement in November 2021 for space situational awareness services and data.
Scout Space won a $50,000 Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the U.S. Air Force.
Scout Space won a U.S. Air Force contract on 2021-11-16 to integrate data from satellites and ground sensors that monitor objects in orbit.