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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Luis Gomes, AAC Clyde Space CEO, and Craig Clark, AAC Clyde Space chief strategy officer, have sought to expand AAC Clyde Space’s presence in the U.S. space market.
On 2020-10-07, AAC Clyde Space revealed plans to purchase Hyperion Technologies of the Netherlands for 21.7 Swedish Krona (SEK), equivalent to $2,440,000.
Bert Monna, Hyperion Technologies CEO, supports joining AAC Clyde in order to offer a more integrated one-stop-shop, increased service levels, and greater business robustness.
The market relevant to AAC Clyde Space is currently estimated to be worth $2,000,000,000 a year and projected to grow to $3–4 billion by 2022.
AAC Clyde Space has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Hyperion Technologies BV in a shares and cash deal.
With the new capabilities from the acquisition, AAC Clyde Space will offer new solutions for turnkey space missions and for the Space-as-a-Service business, including deployment of optical communications systems.
AAC Clyde Space expects to end 2020 with roughly 100 million Swedish krona in sales, which is more than 50% higher than its 2019 sales.
AAC Clyde Space reported that customers who delayed orders earlier in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic are returning, which the company expects will result in a surge in sales late in 2020 and into early 2021.
The Swedish Transport Administration is providing 12.2 million Swedish krona to AAC Clyde Space for the cubesat.
AAC Clyde Space expects to receive 17 million Swedish krona in total for the VDES demonstration program.
The first of Orbcomm’s two AAC Clyde AIS cubesats is projected to launch in December and the second is projected to launch between the beginning of April and the end of June.
AAC Clyde Space will build the cubesat in Uppsala, Sweden at a facility previously used only for satellite subsystems.
Exotrail has two propulsion systems scheduled to launch next year on cubesats that Clyde Space is building for Eutelsat.
AAC Clyde Space built NSLSat-1, which launched last year on a Soyuz rocket.
AAC Clyde built Kepler’s first two prototype satellites, which were three-unit cubesats launched into low Earth orbit in 2018.
AAC Clyde Space received a second satellite order from Israeli startup NSLComm to provide NSLSat-2 as a turnkey solution.
AAC Clyde Space will build two 12-kilogram 6U cubesats for Eutelsat that are planned to launch in 2021.
Eutelsat ordered two cubesats from AAC Clyde Space on 2019-09-24.
Eutelsat said the AAC Clyde Space satellites and Loft Orbital hosted payloads will cost the company no more than 1,000,000 EUR each.
AAC Clyde Space reported that its Eutelsat contract is worth 2,000,000 EUR with the potential to expand to 5,000,000 EUR depending on chosen options and services.