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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Wyvern Inc. committed to subscribe to AAC Clyde Space’s data service for an initial four-year period for GBP 8.4 million (approximately SEK 105 million).
By the end of 2023 AAC Clyde Space is expected to own a total of 11 satellites dedicated to delivering data from space.
AAC Clyde Space will own the three satellites contracted to deliver hyperspectral data to Wyvern.
In November 2022 AAC Clyde Space delivered the first of two 3U satellites that will deliver data to ORBCOMM Inc.
AAC Clyde Space expects to have completed delivery of the reaction wheel order during the fourth quarter of 2023.
AAC Clyde Space won a USD 0.59 million (approximately SEK 6.1 million) order for reaction wheels.
The ARTES-funded Pioneer project worked with companies including Spire Global and AAC Clydespace to develop infrastructure to enable new service providers with low-cost and quick access to space.
AAC Clyde Space won an order for satellite subsystems valued at USD 2.3 million (approx. SEK 23.8 million) from a U.S. development company supplying spacecraft and other multi-mission systems.
A consortium that includes AAC Clyde Space’s subsidiary AAC Hyperion has been selected by the European Defence Fund to develop a sub-100 kg satellite named Naucrates for space situational awareness in geostationary orbit.
ARTES-funded UK projects have included Pioneer, which worked with companies including Spire Global and AAC Clyde Space to develop infrastructure to enable new service providers with low-cost and quick access to space.
The ARTES-funded Pioneer project worked with companies including Spire Global and AAC Clyde Space to develop infrastructure intended to enable new service providers with low cost and quick access to space.
AAC Clyde Space previously received orders for the ForgeStar-1 project in December 2020 and January 2022.
AAC Clyde Space received a EUR 234,000 order from UK-based Space Forge to provide space products for a demonstration spacecraft.
AAC Clyde Space expected to complete delivery of the ForgeStar-1 order during the second quarter of 2023.
The Start Me Up manifest included the IOD-3 AMBER satellite developed by Satellite Applications Catapult and Horizon Technologies and built by AAC Clyde Space, intended as the first of more than 20 Amber satellites for maritime domain awareness.
AAC Clyde Space owns and operates the satellites in the SDaaS project that will deliver AIS data exclusively to ORBCOMM and ORBCOMM’s government and commercial customers.
AAC Clyde Space plans to launch a second Kelpie satellite in the first half of 2023.
The contract to deliver hyperspectral data increases the total number of satellites owned by the AAC Clyde Space group for SDaaS purposes to eleven.
The first Kelpie satellite, owned and built by AAC Clyde Space in Glasgow, will deliver data to ORBCOMM Inc. under an exclusive Space Data as a Service (SDaaS) deal.
The six spacecraft launched on 3 January 2023 were developed by Innovative Solutions In Space B.V. (ISISPACE) in the Netherlands and AAC Clyde Space in Scotland.