Trident Space (founded in 2016 and reportedly out of business as of early 2023) was a satellite developer specializing in bus structure, payload, and electrical power systems designed to provide affordable and timely space imagery. The company planned to build a constellation of 48 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) smallsats in low Earth orbit for Earth observation.
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Trident Aerospace provides aerial unmanned systems solutions to private sector customers such as utility, oil, and gas companies.
One of Trident Aerospace's customers has completed 4,000 flight hours under a continuous ISR services contract over 24 months.
Trident Aerospace achieved this milestone using the S45 BAALAM system from Hydra Technologies.
Trident Aerospace offers contractor-owned/contractor-operated ISR solutions and sells unmanned aerial systems for government institutions in border protection, law enforcement, and intelligence support.
Trident Aerospace and Hydra Technologies have announced a broad-ranging alliance that benefits customers throughout the American continent, Africa, and the Middle East.
Trident Space is privately funded and expects to close a $7,000,000 Series A round of financing in September.
Trident Space expects its manufacturing partner to manufacture approximately 12 spacecraft per year for each of the constellations built for various customers.
At 300 kg, Trident Space’s SAR satellites are designed for an on-orbit life of four years and a lifetime SAR image collection capacity of 44 million square kilometers at 1 m resolution.
Trident Space plans periodic high-resolution airborne SAR data gathering starting in early 2019 to build annotated SAR image data sets for machine learning training.
Trident Space Inc. of Fairfax, Virginia plans to launch its first SAR smallsat in 2021.
Trident Space is designing its SAR satellites including the bus structure, payload, and electrical power system.
Trident Space plans to launch six SAR satellites in 2023 and then 12 SAR satellites each year thereafter to build a 48-satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.
Trident Space estimates an on-orbit cost of about $42,000,000 per 300-kilogram SAR satellite.
Trident Space plans SAR smallsats that will collect images at resolutions from one meter to 0.3 m.
At $10 per square kilometer for one-meter-resolution imagery, a Trident Space satellite with a lifetime collection capacity of 44 million square kilometers has a lifetime earning capacity of $440,000,000.