AAC Clyde Space is a space company specializing in small satellite technologies and services. As a manufacturer and service provider, they offer CubeSat components, satellite platforms, and "Space Data as a Service" (SDaaS), delivering data for Earth observation and maritime applications. The company partners with commercial, governmental, and educational organizations, including the UK Space Agency and ESA, with operations in Sweden, the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and the USA. Keywords associated with the company include: CubeSats, satellite components, space data, earth observation, and maritime tracking.
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AAC Clyde Space designed and manufactured Scotland's original satellite, UKube-1, in 2014 in partnership with the UK Space Agency.
AAC Clyde Space will design, manufacture, and own three 6U EPIC satellites equipped with hyperspectral payloads under the agreement with Wyvern Inc.
AAC Clyde Space entered into an $8,400,000 contract to deliver high-resolution, multi-band, hyperspectral data from space to Canadian Earth Observation company Wyvern Inc. over an initial four-year period with an intended start in mid-2022.
AAC Clyde Space has launched 10 Glasgow-built satellites.
In March 2021 AAC Clyde Space agreed with Wyvern Inc. to secure the launch of three satellites into orbit in 2022 for the hyperspectral data service.
AAC Clyde Space initially focused operations on providing free access to all SeaHawk-1 data collected and processed from mid-April 2021 to the International Ocean Color Community.
AAC Clyde Space received a 135 kUSD order to continue operating the SeaHawk-1 satellite from its Operations Center in Glasgow, Scotland for a further 12 months.
AAC Clyde Space was formed in 2018 when Sweden’s AAC Microtec acquired Clyde Space of Scotland.
SeaHawk-1 is operated from AAC Clyde Space’s Glasgow Operations Center with instrument data downloaded to NASA Wallops facility via the satellite’s X-band downlink.
The two smallsats procured by Horizon Space Technologies from AAC Clyde Space will become part of the Amber™ constellation dedicated to delivering Maritime Domain Awareness intelligence data.
AAC Clyde Space won a £4.6 million order from Horizon Space Technologies for a full turn-key solution that includes two new smallsat launches, operations, and data delivery.
SpaceQuest, AAC Clyde Space’s US subsidiary, received an order worth $550,000 (approx. SEK 4.6 million) for global navigation satellite systems receivers and antennas.
AAC Clyde Space’s Space Data as a Service division delivers data from space directly to customers.
The managed services agreement between AAC Clyde Space and Horizon Technologies includes securing two satellite launches in the second half of 2022 and handling operations and data delivery.
AAC Clyde Space will build the two satellites at its site in Glasgow, Scotland as part of a managed services contract worth 4.6 million British pounds.
The two additional satellites will join Amber IOD-3, which AAC Clyde Space is building for deployment from the International Space Station this summer.
The contract between AAC Clyde Space and Astroscale UK for ELSA-M is valued at £260,000 and is expected to be completed by the start of 2022.
AAC Clyde Space has been selected by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre to deliver a 0.2 MEUR computer system for the Rashid lunar rover.
AAC Clyde Space offers turnkey solutions and services from mission design to on-orbit operations, including customizable satellite platforms in the 1 to 50 kg range and a full range of subsystems for cube and small satellites.
AAC Clyde Space used Hyperion’s star trackers in many of its satellites prior to acquiring Hyperion in 2020.