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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ÅAC Clyde builds small satellites with masses up to 50 kg.
ÅAC Clyde raised 82.5 million Swedish krona in capital, equivalent to approximately $9,000,000.
ÅAC Clyde can build up to eight satellites per month at full capacity provided the satellites are identical.
ÅAC Clyde expects to hire 40 to 50 more people across its Sweden, Scotland, and England locations by the end of the year.
Edison Investment Research’s 2019-05-09 report expects ÅAC Clyde sales to improve as the year continues and emphasizes the need for more staff to support larger production volumes.
ÅAC Clyde received a contract from Orbcomm of Rochelle Park, New Jersey to build and operate two cubesats for Automatic Identification System ship-tracking.
ÅAC Clyde announced the capital raise on 2019-06-10 from a mix of new and existing investors.
ÅAC Clyde is hiring more staff in 2019 to support a backlog of smallsat business from customers finalizing spacecraft decisions.
Clyde Space will equip the cubesats with antennas designed to maximize detection of AIS messages.
Under the deal, Clyde Space will develop Intuition-1’s satellite bus, including the onboard computer, communications systems, attitude control system, and electrical power system.
Clyde Space, a subsidiary of ÅAC Microtec, plans to build and begin operating two cubesats equipped with Automatic Identification System receivers for Orbcomm in 2020.
ÅAC Microtec is expanding its business strategy to build and operate spacecraft for customers.
Clyde Space partnered with Orbcomm to build and launch two Automatic Identification System-enabled cubesats in 2020 under a project worth nearly $6,000,000 over five years.
The contract between ÅAC Microtec’s Clyde Space and Orbcomm is valued at 54 million Swedish Krona ($5,900,000).
KP Labs selected Clyde Space to build the satellite platform and organize Intuition-1’s launch after a nine-month evaluation of eight offers from companies in Europe and the United States.
ÅAC Clyde is building a third prototype satellite for Kepler Communications with participation from the Satellite Applications Catapult for a planned spring 2019 launch on an unannounced rocket.
Kepler has a second of three prototype satellites from ÅAC Clyde scheduled to launch later 2018.
ÅAC Microtec completed its $35,300,000 purchase of Clyde Space in January.
Clyde Space shipped approximately 60 percent of its products to U.S. customers in 2017.
ÅAC Clyde intends to acquire or merge with an American company to establish a presence in the U.S. market.