Redwire Space is a space infrastructure company that provides critical technologies and solutions for space missions. It specializes in areas like power generation, deployable structures, microgravity research, and in-space manufacturing, including 3D printing. Redwire partners with organizations like Sierra Space, NASA, ESA, and the ISS National Lab, providing hardware, payload development, and engineering services to enable space exploration and commercial activities in low Earth orbit and beyond.
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Redwire’s expanded UK presence will include dedicated staff in engineering, program management, logistics, and sustainment functions.
Redwire’s Hammerhead spacecraft for QKDSat will carry a QKD payload and Redwire’s ADPMS-3 avionics suite.
Redwire built 11 cameras that are installed around the inside and outside of NASA’s Orion capsule.
ESA’s Quantum Key Distribution Satellite (QKDSat) contract within the ARTES Partnership Projects program was awarded to Redwire.
The QKDSat industrial consortium includes Redwire Space of Belgium, Craft Prospect, Lumino Technologies, COLT, and British Telecom of the United Kingdom, QTLabs of Austria, Honeywell’s team in Canada, and several key players in Czechia and Switzerland.
Redwire will manufacture and deliver its European-built Hammerhead spacecraft for QKDSat.
Redwire’s Belgium facility has contributed spacecraft platforms and technology to ESA programs including Proba-1, Proba-2, Proba-V, Proba-3, Σyndeo-3, and ALTIUS.
Redwire’s Belgium facility has more than 50 years of spaceflight heritage.
Redwire’s cameras captured photos on Firefly’s Blue Ghost flight and on Intuitive Machines missions under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Redwire will participate in Artemis III.
On April 6, 2026, Redwire Corporation won a contract from the European Space Agency to develop a quantum encryption satellite.
Redwire provided four redundant Coarse Sun Sensor assemblies for Orion’s European Service Module through a contract with Airbus.
The Redwire contract with the European Space Agency is part of the EuroQCI (European Quantum Communication Infrastructure) initiative.
The Redwire satellite is intended to provide sovereign communications for government and military use.
The contract expands Redwire’s role in European defense and security missions.
Redwire’s European business units are leading the quantum encryption satellite project.
L3Harris, Redwire, and Renesas are contracted to support Artemis III through V as well.
Redwire Corporation supplied the Orion Camera System under contract with Lockheed Martin for Artemis missions I through V.
The Redwire satellite will use Quantum Key Distribution technology.
The contract positions Redwire as a partner for EU-based missions.