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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NanoAvionics plans to collaborate with the 0.005 kg Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey.
NanoAvionics revealed the remaining three payloads of its D-2/AtlaCom-1 rideshare mission hosted on the M6P 6U nanosatellite bus.
An international consortium plans to launch a hyperspectral camera built by Dragonfly Aerospace on a NanoAvionics rideshare mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2021.
Prior to the latest announcement, Exolaunch secured Falcon 9 rideshare flights in 2020 and 2021 for cubesats built by NanoAvionics of Lithuania.
NanoAvionics designs a spacecraft bus adaptable across cubesat sizes with approximately 80 percent common components.
NanoAvionics’ Midland, Texas facility functions as a scalable resource that allows the company to mass produce its nanosatellite buses for constellation orders.
NanoAvionics received orders in 2020 from British space video startup Sen, a consortium of Dutch and Norwegian government agencies, and Thales Alenia Space.
NanoAvionics expanded its product line on 2020-08-03 to take full control of each aspect of clients’ satellite development, including systems development, mission integration, logistics, and operations.
Exotrail has a demonstration propulsion system on a NanoAvionics cubesat awaiting launch on an Indian PSLV mission that was delayed from November 2019.
The NanoAvionics satellites will be integrated on a Falcon 9 ESPA port and deployed in orbit using Exolaunch’s EXOpod cubesat deployer.
The first NanoAvionics six-unit cubesat covered by the 2020-06-29 contract is scheduled to reach orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 dedicated rideshare mission in 2020-12-01.
Thales Alenia Space selected NanoAvionics to manufacture the first two satellite buses for Omnispace’s internet-of-things constellation.
On 2020-06-29, Exolaunch contracted to integrate NanoAvionics cubesats on SpaceX rideshare missions.
On 2020-04-20, a consortium of Dutch and Norwegian government agencies selected NanoAvionics to build a pair of cubesats for an experimental military program.
Thales Alenia Space plans to install the Omnispace payload in a bus manufactured by Lithuanian nanosatellite manufacturer NanoAvionics.
AST & Science acquired a controlling interest in NanoAvionics in 2018.
Sen awarded NanoAvionics a contract to build five nanosatellites to capture ultra-high-definition video from space.
Under a contract of undisclosed value, NanoAvionics will manufacture 16-unit cubesat buses and integrate them with Sen’s payload in its European manufacturing and research facility in Vilnius, Lithuania.
NanoAvionics of Lithuania supplied the bus for Lacuna Space’s first prototype payload.
Lacuna Space agreed in July to purchase another NanoAvionics M6P nanosatellite bus that it plans to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019.