Muon Space, founded in 2021, is an end-to-end space systems provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations to deliver mission-critical Earth observation data. They offer a "Constellation-as-a-Service" (CaaS) model, providing customers with tailored remote sensing solutions. Muon Space's integrated technology stack and Silicon Valley facility enable rapid payload integration and satellite manufacturing, with key applications including climate monitoring, weather forecasting, and national security. They partner with organizations like Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), Tomorrow.io, and Google. Associated keywords: Earth Intelligence, LEO Satellites, Remote Sensing, Climate Monitoring.
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Muon Space is vertically integrated, designing and building its satellites, handling launches, and delivering data directly to customers.
Muon Space is partnering with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance to deploy a constellation of FireSat satellites in low Earth orbit to monitor wildfires and related environmental phenomena.
Muon Space was awarded a $2,900,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract by the U.S. Space Force to evaluate its satellite technology for military applications.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
Muon Space and Earth Fire Alliance partnered to develop the FireSat Constellation.
Muon Space will launch a FireSat pathfinder satellite in 2025 ahead of phase one of the FireSat Constellation.
Muon Space is working with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance to build a satellite constellation focused on prevention and monitoring of wildfires.
The partnership between Muon Space and Earth Fire Alliance was disclosed on 2024-05-06 at the GEOINT Symposium.
Muon Space’s long-term goal for the FireSat network is more than 50 satellites with revisit times for most of the globe improving to 20 minutes.
Muon Space projects the first phase of the FireSat constellation will launch in 2026 and will consist of three Muon Halo satellites equipped with six-band multispectral infrared instruments.
Muon Space planned to sell end-to-end constellation services since the company was founded in Mountain View, California, in 2021.
Muon Space is earning more than $60,000,000 designing, building, and operating remote-sensing satellites for customers.
A second Muon Space satellite launched 2024-03-04 on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare flight as a prototype weather satellite for the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit.
Muon Halo is an integrated hardware and software platform developed by Muon Space for customers seeking space-based data without developing spacecraft, ground networks, or data-processing capability themselves.
Muon Space raised $10,000,000 in a 2021 seed funding round.
The National Reconnaissance Office tapped Muon Space to provide multispectral electro-optical and infrared data from Muon Space’s future climate-monitoring constellation.
The 10 Muon Space satellites under contract are scheduled to launch in 2025 and 2026 for commercial, government, and nonprofit organizations.
Muon Space raised $25,000,000 in a 2022 Series A funding round.
MuSat is Muon Space's configurable spacecraft platform deployed in configurations spanning 100 kg to 500+ kg mass, 50 W to over 1 kW of power, multi-Gbps communications bandwidth, and high-precision, agile pointing.
MuSim is Muon Space's scalable mission simulation engine and digital twin platform that the company develops at high fidelity for every constellation deployed to accelerate mission lifecycle and operations.