Kongsberg NanoAvionics is a small satellite mission integrator and manufacturer, specializing in high-performance CubeSats, nanosatellites, and microsatellites. They offer standardized small satellite platforms and end-to-end mission services, with over 80 satellites launched or in production for customers in over 35 countries. As a subsidiary of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, NanoAvionics partners with major players like NASA, ESA, and Thales Alenia Space, providing satellite buses and propulsion systems for various applications including remote sensing and telecommunications. They are known for enabling space-based connectivity and remote sensing, and for their contributions to the NewSpace economy.
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On 2022-08-10, NanoAvionics extended its range of modular satellite buses toward the heavier end of the small satellite market.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace bought a majority stake in NanoAvionics for about $67,000,000.
NanoAvionics offers the MP42H bus for payloads of up to 22 kg.
InMotion Holdings, LLC, a company owned by AST SpaceMobile’s chief executive Abel Avellan, will receive 7,700,000 EUR for options it has to acquire NanoAvionics shares.
NanoAvionics has contracts to provide satellite buses or complete satellites for startups including Gama and Turion Space.
The parties have agreed on an enterprise value of 65,000,000 EUR on a 100 percent basis for NanoAvionics.
Kongsberg will acquire 77% of NanoAvionics under the terms of the agreement announced 2022-07-05.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace will acquire a majority stake in NanoAvionics in a deal that values NanoAvionics at 65,000,000 EUR ($67,000,000).
The parties have agreed upon an enterprise value of EUR 65 million on a 100 percent basis for NanoAvionics.
AST SpaceMobile expects to receive 27,000,000 EUR for the NanoAvionics shares it is selling.
The three satellites ordered by Kongsberg will use NanoAvionics’ MP42 satellite bus designed for satellites weighing 50 kg or more.
Kongsberg procured three small satellites from NanoAvionics in April as a first step toward establishing Norway’s first satellite constellation.
Kongsberg announced the procurement of three microsatellites from NanoAvionics as a first step toward establishing Norway’s first satellite constellation.
Kongsberg will expand its space offering to include products and technology for designing and manufacturing small satellites through the acquisition of NanoAvionics.
AST SpaceMobile acquired a 51% stake in NanoAvionics in 2018.
NanoAvionics built, tested, and launched D2 / Atlacom-1 in eight months in 2021.
Contec contracted in 2021 with U.S. smallsat mission integrator NanoAvionics for a 16-unit cubesat bus that will carry a Contec laser communications terminal and a 1.5-meter-resolution imager supplied by Simera Sense.
The nanosatellite platforms use NanoAvionics’ 3U smallsat bus M3P with a payload mass capacity of up to 3 kg developed by Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute.
Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute at the University of Auckland has tasked NanoAvionics to build two nanosatellite platforms designed to support educational and technology demonstration missions.
NanoAvionics provided modular nanosatellite buses, launch support, and in-orbit operations for the Omnispace Spark program.