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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Xenesis is working with early Xen-Link customers to define requirements for Xen-Hub optical terminals built by Space Micro to integrate with customer satellites.
Space Micro received an Air Force contract last year to develop a secure optical terminal for Air Force missions.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Space Micro a $3,000,000 contract for a laser communications terminal designed to transmit data at 100 gigabits per second.
Under the $3,000,000 Space Force contract, Space Micro will deliver an engineering model of a laser communications terminal developed for commercial geostationary satellites in late 2021.
Discussions between San Diego-based Space Micro and the Space and Missile Systems Center completed in March increased the value of Space Micro’s award to $3,000,000.
The Air Force invited eight firms—Analytical Space, Arete Associates, Lucid Circuit, Numerica, Omitron, Roccor, Space Micro, and Synaptech—to apply to increase their SBIR phase two awards from $750,000 to $3,000,000.
Space Micro will offer the U.S. Air Force an engineering model of a satellite laser communications terminal developed for the commercial geostationary communications satellite market.
Space Micro has invested $60,000,000 in the satellite laser communications technology for commercial applications.