Space Micro, powered by Voyager Space, is an engineering-driven company that supplies high-performance, radiation-hardened digital, electro-optic, and communication systems for satellites and space exploration. They manufacture products like telemetry transmitters, space cameras, star trackers, and laser communication systems. Space Micro partners with organizations such as the U.S. Space Force, Space Development Agency, and NASA, and works with prime contractors like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. The company focuses on technology advancement and product implementation for commercial, civil, and military space applications.
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The Canadian Space Mining Corporation received $1,000,000 to develop Canada’s first space micro modular reactor.
Space Micro’s µXTx-200 supports BPSK, QPSK, and OQPSK modulation, has a frequency accuracy of ±50 ppm, requires 28 V supply, consumes up to 80 W, has a mass of 2.3 kg, measures 208 x 152 x 0.066 m, and has flown on the NASA IRIS mission.
Space Micro’s µXTx-200 X-band transmitter operates in the 8.025-8.5 GHz range with an RF output power of 1.4 W, a channel bandwidth of 100 Hz–10 MHz, and a data rate capability up to 3.5 Gbps.
The IPC-7000 from Space Micro provides a solid-state buffer of 256 GB per slice, requires a 28 V input supply, and consumes up to 40 W of power.
Voyager acquired Space Micro in November 2022 prior to the acquisition of ZIN Technologies.
Space Micro is under contract to supply optical terminals to the Space Force Space Systems Command.
Space Micro was acquired earlier 2022 by Voyager Space.
Sandia National Laboratories partnered with Space Micro on the Barnacle proposal to support customer discovery during the program.
Space Micro Inc, powered by Voyager Space, was awarded an Orbital Prime contract by the U.S. Space Force as part of the first phase of the Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Space Micro Inc., powered by Voyager Space, was awarded an Orbital Prime contract by the U.S. Space Force as part of the first phase of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.
Space Micro designed the Block 1 radios as precursors to its Nanocom family of SDRs with the ability to create and operate within an ad-hoc communication network similar to terrestrial Wi-Fi.
The Missile Defense Agency deployed two CubeSats developed by Space Micro with integrated radio frequency payloads based on Space Micro’s µSDR-C family of small form factor software-defined radios.
Space Micro designed the CNCE Block 1 radios as precursors to the company’s Nanocom family of SDRs with the additional ability to create and operate within an ad-hoc communication network similar to terrestrial Wi‑Fi.
The Missile Defense Agency deployed two CubeSats developed by Space Micro with integrated radio frequency (RF) payloads based on Space Micro’s μSDR-C™ family of small form factor software defined radios.
Space Micro has delivered space processors for cislunar, geostationary Earth orbit, highly elliptical orbit, and low Earth orbit applications for multiple U.S. and international civil and national security space programs.
Space Micro Inc., powered by Voyager Space and based in San Diego, California, delivered seven flight-level Single Board Computers (SBCs) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE).
Space Micro, owned by Voyager Space, won a separate U.S. Air Force SBIR contract in January to develop an optical terminal to connect satellites with military aircraft.
The Space Development Agency awarded BridgeComm and Space Micro a $1,700,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract to demonstrate one-to-many optical communications technology over two years.
Space Micro’s current space-based optical communications products support data rates up to 100 Gbps.
Space Micro Inc., powered by Voyager Space and based in San Diego, California, supplies radiation-hardened communications, electro-optics, and digital systems for commercial, civil, and military space applications.