York Space Systems is an aerospace company specializing in the rapid and affordable production of complete space mission solutions, including spacecraft platforms. They manufacture satellites for low-Earth orbit (LEO), geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO), and cislunar missions, offering end-to-end services from mission design to operations. York's key products are their S-CLASS and LX-CLASS spacecraft platforms, designed for ISR, remote sensing, weather, and communication missions, serving government and commercial clients like the Space Development Agency (SDA).
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York Space Systems is building communications satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency under a $94,000,000 contract awarded in 2020.
York Space Systems has achieved full operational capacity of its first production facility, which was originally announced in May 2020.
York Space Systems plans to establish a mega manufacturing facility in Denver as of 2021-05-18.
York Space Systems designed the new mega facility to handle surges in demand for customers establishing and operating satellite constellations.
York Space Systems will be able to produce as many as 80 satellites simultaneously in the new Denver facility.
York Space Systems moved into a larger facility where it could build 20 satellites at once.
York Space Systems’ current production plant can build 20 satellites at a time.
The Long March 5B core stage has an orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees, causing its ground track to pass slightly north of New York, Madrid, and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand.
The Long March 5B core stage’s orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees causes the rocket body to pass slightly farther north than New York, Madrid, and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand.
In October 2019 York Space Systems planned to produce 50 satellites in 2020 and envisioned producing hundreds of satellites annually in the future.
York Space Systems and Lockheed Martin are building 10 satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0 mesh network slated to launch in 2022.
York Space Systems’ autonomous operations capability used by the S-CLASS reduced the number of people needed to operate a specific customer constellation from 15 to zero.
In August the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency awarded York Space Systems a $94,000,000 contract to partly build a network of satellites in low Earth orbit for the military.
York Space Systems is producing a larger satellite platform called LX-CLASS with double the payload volume of its current S-CLASS spacecraft bus.
York Space Systems is currently building 15 under-contract spacecraft in a facility designed to produce 20 satellites simultaneously.
York Space Systems is building 15 under-contract spacecraft in a facility designed to produce 20 satellites simultaneously.
York Space Systems’ S-CLASS autonomous operations capability reduced the number of people needed to operate a customer constellation from 15 to zero.
In October 2019, York Space Systems planned to produce 50 satellites in 2020 and hundreds annually in the future.
In August, the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency awarded York Space Systems a $94,000,000 contract to partly build a network of satellites in low Earth orbit for the military.
York Space Systems’ Denver manufacturing facility is designed to produce 20 spacecraft simultaneously.