Turion Space is a space technology company focused on building spacecraft for space domain awareness, in-space services like satellite servicing and debris removal, and space logistics. They develop "Droid" micro-satellites equipped with advanced sensors to capture non-Earth images and track orbital debris. Turion Space aims to provide continuous debris monitoring and alert services, and their technologies have gained traction across national security customers. NASA and the U.S. Space Force are among their partners.
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Turion Space intends to build a constellation of Droids that can be tasked to provide services as needed.
Turion Space plans to test a vision system for autonomous rendezvous operations with one of its spacecraft already in low Earth orbit after deploying additional Droids.
Turion Space plans to perform its first docking and de-orbit demonstration by 2025.
Turion Space is using funds raised from government contracts for research and development on the logistics side of its business and to expand its SSA capabilities.
Turion Space is an early-stage company developing space-based solutions to improve space situational awareness.
Droid.001’s primary mission is to test imagery capabilities for Turion Space’s space situational awareness business.
Lithuania-based NanoAvionics built the satellite bus for Turion Space’s Droid.001.
Turion Space has raised $7,500,000 in venture capital to cover its first two satellites.
Turion Space plans to deploy three to four more SSA-focused Droids by around mid-2024.
Turion Space plans to deploy its second satellite in the fourth quarter of 2023 and has not yet selected a launch provider for that mission.
NanoAvionics has contracts to provide satellite buses or complete satellites for startups including Gama and Turion Space.
Turion Space selected Exolaunch to provide launch services for the company’s first DROID spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter rideshare mission.
Turion Space designs, develops, and operates DROID spacecraft in Irvine, California.
Turion Space selected the NanoAvionics MP42 small satellite bus as the basis for its Droid-1 spacecraft.
A satellite like Turion Space’s Droid-1 can provide more precise domain awareness measurements than ground systems such as radars and telescopes.
Turion Space’s Droid-1 will use onboard sensors to take extremely accurate measurements of spacecraft and objects in orbit.
Turion Space plans to launch a D-1 satellite in the near term.
Turion Space Corp. builds spacecraft to remove orbital debris and to provide orbit-modification and domain-awareness services to existing space assets.