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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The Kepler–NanoAvionics partnership targets spacecraft with a mass of up to 500 kg for hosted payload initiatives.
The Kepler–NanoAvionics partnership will utilize U.S. Space Development Agency standards for secure, interoperable data transfer.
The partnership focuses on integrating NanoAvionics’ platforms with The Kepler Network to provide satellite operators with real-time optical connectivity and on-orbit compute services.
The collaboration will initially focus on integrating Kepler services with the MP42 microsatellite platform before expanding to NanoAvionics’ CubeSat lines.
NanoAvionics will use different optical inter-satellite links (OISL) across its MP42 microsatellite and cubesat platforms when offering Kepler’s services.
NanoAvionics will offer Kepler’s optical and on-orbit compute capabilities first on the NanoAvionics MP42 microsatellite and subsequently on its cubesat platforms.
On February 17, 2026 Kepler Communications selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics as its preferred European satellite bus provider for upcoming hosted payload initiatives.
The Kepler–NanoAvionics agreement allows hosted payloads on NanoAvionics buses to access Kepler Communications’ optical communications network.
NanoAvionics will offer Kepler’s optical data relay and edge computing services as an optional feature within its portfolio of inter-satellite link solutions.
NanoAvionics will receive priority consideration to access higher data rates from the Kepler Network as it scales to 100 Gbps-class capacity, subject to availability and mutually agreed commercial terms.
The partnership between Kepler Communications and Kongsberg NanoAvionics is a non-exclusive preferential partnership.
NanoAvionics will receive priority consideration as Kepler scales capacity on its optical network.
NanoAvionics plans to offer Kepler-compatible optical communications capability on its MP42 microsatellite and cubesat platforms using different optical intersatellite links.
NanoAvionics will offer sub-second 2.5-Gbps connectivity and terabytes of data per day as an optional add-on to its customers.
Kepler Communications named Kongsberg NanoAvionics its preferred European satellite bus provider for optically-connected missions.
The combined Kepler and NanoAvionics offering is designed to meet demand for high-bandwidth, low-latency communications and on-orbit edge processing.
Kepler integrates its optical network and on-orbit compute services with NanoAvionics’ platforms to support responsive, time-critical, dynamically tasked missions.
Kepler Communications selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics as its preferred satellite bus provider in Europe.
Integrating Kepler’s optical data relay network enables NanoAvionics to offer customers real-time connectivity with speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps.
Kepler Communications selected NanoAvionics as the preferred European satellite bus provider for its hosted payload initiatives in a non-exclusive agreement.