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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OQ Technology announced on 2021-04-06 that Lithuania-based NanoAvionics is building a satellite called MACSAT based on a 6U cubesat bus equipped with S-band transceivers.
OQ Technology selected NanoAvionics to build the company’s MACSAT satellite mission.
NanoAvionics will build and test a 6U smallsat platform to host the MACSAT communication payload.
NanoAvionics expects to grow fivefold across its entire service portfolio for nano- and microsatellite missions and to produce about 120 satellites per year by 2025.
NanoAvionics expects to produce about 120 satellites per year by 2025.
NanoAvionics’ modular approach for small satellite buses ranging from 12 to 35 kg helped triple the company’s revenues over the previous 12 months as of last August.
NanoAvionics expanded its staff from about 30 people to more than 100 after moving from cubesats to larger nanosatellite-class spacecraft around 2017.
NanoAvionics US Inc. is a smallsat mission integrator that delivers next-generation satellite buses and propulsion systems for the satellite applications market.
Thales Alenia Space subcontracted much of the smallsat work to other companies, with NanoAvionics building the satellite buses, Syrlinks building the S-band payloads, and Anywaves building the antennas.
Exolaunch provided deployment, mission management, and integration services on Transporter-1 for the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Dresden Technical University, ICEYE, NanoAvionics, and other commercial companies.
SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission delivered 143 payloads, including satellites from Spire, Capella, NanoAvionics, Spaceflight, HawkEye, PlanetiQ, Astro Digital, D-Orbit, and 10 Starlink satellites.
The launch of the second NanoAvionics-built satellite for Aurora Insight is scheduled to take place during the first quarter of 2021.
The first of the two NanoAvionics-built nanosatellites for Aurora Insight, nicknamed Charlie, will launch on SpaceX’s Transporter 1 rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9.
NanoAvionics and Aurora Insight began working together in January 2020.
Aurora Insight partnered with NanoAvionics to build and integrate two nanosatellites and to provide launch services.
NanoAvionics built the R2 satellite that was equipped with ExoMG™ for the mission.
NanoAvionics will provide nanosatellite AIT services to its growing and existing customer base in the UK from the new Basingstoke facility.
In August 2020 NanoAvionics achieved a revenue increase of about 300 percent over the preceding 12 months.
The official opening of NanoAvionics’ new Basingstoke facility will take place on 2020-11-19 as an online event featuring a company presentation, a virtual tour, and breakout sessions for suppliers, governmental organizations, and a nanosatellite systems engineering workshop.
NanoAvionics seeks to develop its chemical propulsion intellectual property further with stakeholders at the UK National Propulsion Test Facility.