Rhea Space Activity (RSA) is a U.S.-based astrophysics company that develops technologies to support national security objectives in space. They specialize in autonomous navigation and secure communication, offering solutions like the Jervis Autonomy Module (JAM) for GPS-denied environments and the Quantum Lovelace Optical Augmentation Kit (QLOAK) for quantum-encrypted laser communications. RSA partners with organizations like ispace-US and NASA, demonstrated by their collaboration on lunar missions and development of hazard detection technology. The company's activities span infrared satellites, directed energy, artificial intelligence, and astroparticle physics.
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ispace technologies U.S., inc. (ispace-U.S.) signed a payload services agreement with Rhea Space Activity to deliver autonomous guidance and navigation technology to lunar orbit aboard ispace-U.S.’s Mission 3 scheduled for 2026.
Rhea Space Activity’s JAM modules will be flown in conjunction with ispace-U.S.’s contribution to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver Artemis science investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
Rhea Space Activity received Small Business Innovation Research awards from the U.S. Air Force to develop a "lunar intelligence dashboard" for monitoring spacecraft activities in cislunar space.
Rhea Space Activity will fly two Jervis Autonomy Module (JAM) units on a Draper-led lunar lander mission scheduled to launch in 2026.
Rhea Space Activity won a $750,000 NASA grant through the agency’s TechFlights solicitation on 2024-03-06.
Rhea Space Activity secured investment from SpaceFund in 2021 to support JAM development.
Phase II will integrate RocketStar’s fusion-powered propulsion core with Rhea Space Activity’s Jervis Autonomy Module (JAM) to enable U.S. Space Force customers to operate beyond geostationary orbit.
Eden Grow Systems and Rhea Space Activity won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 contract on 2022-03-16 to study applications of aeroponic technology for growing produce at inhospitable locations where some Space Force units are deployed.
Rhea Space Activity develops adaptive optics systems to support U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community reconnaissance activities.
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.
Rhea Space Activity won a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contract to design a software tool for monitoring the trajectory of satellites in cislunar space.
Rhea Space Activity and Purdue University researchers identified a resonant retrograde orbit where satellites could be deployed to track objects in both cislunar space and the geostationary belt.
Rhea Space Activity is developing a navigation system called Jervis Autonomous Module, or JAM, that is designed to work without GPS or two-way ranging with ground stations.
Rhea Space Activity plans to offer JAM as a commercial product and intends to deploy JAM on its own cislunar surveillance satellite called JERVIS-1.
Rhea Space Activity is designing a satellite that could be deployed into the retrograde orbit for cislunar and geostationary orbit surveillance.
Rhea Space Activity received a $697,000 SBIR Phase 2 award to continue the lunar intelligence dashboard project, and the project is also funded by private investors.
On 2021-10-20, the U.S. Air Force extended a research contract with Rhea Space Activity to develop a software tool to monitor and predict satellite trajectories in cislunar space.
Rhea Space Activity’s SBIR Phase 1 contract provides $50,000 for the initial study.
Rhea Space Activity won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 study contract funded by the U.S. Space Force to design a spacecraft with a solar-thermal propulsion system.
Rhea Space Activity partnered with Saber Astronautics to conduct the cislunar intelligence study.