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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Under the mission agreement NanoAvionics will provide a 6U smallsat bus, payload integration services, a satellite testing campaign, launch services, and satellite operations for Gama’s demonstration.
FFI previously collaborated with NanoAvionics on a Norwegian-Dutch MilSpace mission in which NanoAvionics built two nanosatellites.
NanoAvionics’ MP42 bus gained flight heritage in April 2022 when it carried a payload for Luxembourg connectivity startup OQ Technology on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
NanoAvionics’ MP42 bus is a "50-kilogram-plus" platform that is the company’s largest microsatellite to date as it expands beyond the 10-kilogram-and-under nanosatellite class.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace ordered three microsatellites from Lithuania’s NanoAvionics for a 2024 launch.
NanoAvionics was selected to build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an on-orbit demonstration of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3).
AST acquired a controlling interest in NanoAvionics in 2018 as part of AST’s strategy to establish manufacturing capabilities in Europe and North America.
NanoAvionics buses are built from multiple standard-sized units measuring 10 x 10 x 0.1 m.
NanoAvionics’ flagship multi-purpose M6P and M12P are the first preconfigured nanosatellite buses in the sector designed to serve emerging commercial space markets.
The NanoAvionics 12U bus shares the same flight-proven subsystems as NanoAvionics’ flagship M6P bus while offering up to 10U of payload volume.
Prométhée contracted NanoAvionics to build the first smallsat for Prométhée’s planned Earth observation constellation and image analysis platform.
NanoAvionics will provide Prométhée with testing, integration, launch, licensing, and initial satellite operations for ProtoMéthée-1.
NanoAvionics achieved six satellite launches on SpaceX Transporter-3 and Transporter-4 that included its MP42 modular microsatellite bus.
NanoAvionics provided the satellite buses, launch support, and in-orbit operations for the Omnispace Spark program.
SpaceX Transporter-4 mission included three satellites built by NanoAvionics for multiple customers.
NanoAvionics established the GIoT project with consortium partners KSAT and Antwerp Space after receiving dedicated funding from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020, ESA’s ARTES, and private investments.
Two other satellites launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 are dedicated telecommunications and Earth observation missions flying onboard NanoAvionics M12P and M6P smallsat buses.
NanoAvionics scheduled a total of 15 satellite launches in 2022, with six satellites successfully deployed already.
Omnispace’s SPARK 1 satellite was designed and built by Thales Alenia Space in conjunction with NanoAvionics, Syrlinks, and ANYWAVES.
Pixxel successfully retrieved its first hyperspectral satellite images from a camera launched last year aboard a satellite built in partnership with NanoAvionics and Dragonfly Aerospace.