Epic Aerospace is a startup company and manufacturer of reusable space tugs designed to deliver satellites into geostationary orbit (GEO). These space tugs transfer satellites from low-Earth orbit (LEO) directly to GEO. The company's space tugs are launched into space by a two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) vehicle where they then serve the purpose of transferring satellites into their final orbit, after which the tugs refuel and repeat this process. EPIC Aerospace investors include Y Combinator, Emles Venture Partners, Iterative Accelerator, and Metaplanet Holdings.
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The fiscal year 2020 NASA budget proposal requested $1,700,000 for EPIC operations.
The Trump administration proposed terminating EPIC operations by including no funding for EPIC in NASA’s fiscal year 2018 and 2019 budget requests, while those proposals did not affect the overall DSCOVR mission funded by NOAA.
Boeing built five of Intelsat’s Epic-series satellites and supplied the payload for one Epic satellite that used a chassis from Airbus Defense and Space.
Boeing built payloads for all six of Intelsat’s Epic-class high-throughput satellites and built the chassis for five of them, while Airbus supplied the platform for Intelsat-32e.
Boeing built five of the six Intelsat Epic satellites and supplied the payload for Intelsat-32e, which used a bus from Airbus Defence and Space.
Intelsat has 23 wide-beam satellites covering Africa and high-throughput spot-beam coverage from Intelsat Epic.
The 2018-09-25 launch completed Intelsat’s Epic series of six high-throughput satellites designed for global broadband and connectivity services.
KVH launched a maritime-focused high-throughput satellite network in late 2017 that is based largely on the Intelsat Epic constellation plus capacity from Sky Perfect JSAT.