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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The 8U NLSat-2 was designed and built by AAC Clyde Space under contract to NSLComm.
The first Kelpie satellite, owned and developed by AAC Clyde Space, will deliver data to ORBCOMM Inc. under an exclusive Space Data as a Service (SDaaS) deal.
Kelpie 1 is a 3U EPIC CubeSat designed and built by AAC Clyde Space to deliver Automatic Identification System (AIS) data exclusively to ORBCOMM and ORBCOMM’s government and commercial customers under an exclusive Space Data as a Service deal.
AAC Clyde Space will deliver the Starbuck power system and batteries to the IM-3 mission.
AAC Clyde Space delivered power systems to Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 and IM-2 missions, both part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
AAC Clyde Space received a $850,000 order for subsystems to support the IM-3 mission to the Moon led by Intuitive Machines.
The $850,000 order is the third order AAC Clyde Space has received for Intuitive Machines’ lunar landing missions.
Astroscale placed earlier orders in 2022 with AAC Clyde Space for a Sirius computer and a Starbuck power system totaling GBP 1.8 million (approx. SEK 23.0 million).
Astroscale Ltd. extended its order from AAC Clyde Space for the ELSA-M end-of-life space debris removal service with additional hardware and functionality valued at GBP 0.611 million (approx. SEK 7.7 million).
In May 2021 Astroscale UK selected AAC Clyde Space to co-engineer a satellite platform for the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale Multi-mission (ELSA-M).
AAC Clyde Space has won a contract worth 574 kEUR (approximately 6.2 MSEK) to maintain radiometers in the telescopes of ALMA.
AAC Omnisys, a subsidiary of AAC Clyde Space, are long-term collaborators with the European Southern Observatory (ESO), one of the international partners operating ALMA.
AAC Clyde Space delivered the first Kelpie satellite to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
AAC Clyde Space will own and operate the Kelpie satellites to deliver Automatic Identification System (AIS) data exclusively to ORBCOMM and ORBCOMM’s government and commercial customers under an SDaaS model.
AAC Clyde Space plans to add two satellites to its constellation in the fourth quarter of 2023.
AAC Clyde Space won a contract to deliver hyperspectral data from an additional three satellites, bringing the total number of satellites owned by the group for SDaaS purposes to eleven.
AAC Clyde Space plans to launch a second Kelpie satellite in the first half of 2023.
AAC Clyde Space operates the Seahawk satellite from its Glasgow Operations Centre.
xSPANCION is a 3-year project led by AAC Clyde Space under the European Space Agency ARTES Pioneer programme.
OHB Sweden built the MATS spacecraft with some components provided by AAC Clyde Space.