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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Combining Space Micro’s space-based optical communications products with MOCA will provide enhanced LEO constellation capability for one-to-many or point-to-multipoint secure communications.
Voyager Space Inc. and Space Micro, Inc., powered by Voyager, received a 24-month development contract from the Space Development Agency for advanced one-to-many optical communications using Managed Optical Communication Array (MOCA) technology to support Low Earth Orbit constellations.
Space Micro partnered with Johns Hopkins University to develop an adaptive optics solution that uses deformable mirrors to transmit a laser signal through atmospheric turbulence.
Space Micro partnered with Rhea Space Activity to develop an adaptive optics solution that uses deformable mirrors to transmit a laser signal through atmospheric turbulence.
Space Micro won a Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 1 contract from AFWERX to develop an air-to-space laser communications pod.
Voyager Space Inc. announced a strategic agreement on 2021-11-22 expressing intent to acquire Space Micro.
Space Micro has multiple active contracts to provide X-band transponders for two lunar missions selected under NASA’s Artemis program.
Space Micro has provided technology to the U.S. Department of Defense including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) space payloads, laser secure communications terminals, and digital RF-to-optical and optical-to-RF signal converters.
Space Micro was awarded a contract to deliver ten Nanocom Software Defined Radios via Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 satellite constellation.
Space Micro has won contracts and established partnerships in recent years with government agencies and companies seeking access to its optical communications technology and software-defined radios.
Space Micro has a NASA contract to provide X-band transponders for two lunar missions selected under the Artemis program.
Space Micro announced a contract in October to deliver ten Nanocom software-defined radios to Lockheed Martin for inclusion in the satellites Lockheed Martin is building for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0 constellation.
Space Micro invested in facility upgrades and capital equipment to expand its manufacturing capacity for space subsystems.
Space Micro received an 8-foot-long by 5-foot-diameter thermal vacuum test system for qualification testing.
Space Micro targets programs requiring between 40 and 1,200 subsystem units per program to support higher production volumes.
Space Micro finalized construction of expanded testing and qualification areas at its 43,000-square-foot headquarters in San Diego last month.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) awarded Space Micro Inc. a contract to deliver ten Ka-band Nanocom Software Defined Radios in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 satellite constellation.
Space Micro will deliver Nanocom flight models to Lockheed Martin by the close of 2021.
The award to Space Micro Inc. is for over $1,650,000 and covers an 18-month performance period.
Space Micro Inc. was selected by U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida to develop an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance space payload for future SOCOM missions.