Orbital Astronautics Ltd (OrbAstro) is a space technology company with locations in the UK, New Zealand, and Germany. They focus on compressing the upfront cost and lead-time to get from business idea to revenue generation, for companies utilising satellites, and builds satellites for commercial and government customers. OrbAstro is developing a subscription-based space traffic management system (STMS) and offers satellite platforms, including the ORB-50, and services such as constellation management and low-latency optical data relay networks. They are involved in missions with partners like AstroForge and utilize launch providers like SpaceX.
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Orbital Astronautics Ltd. (OrbAstro) manufactures nanosatellites and provides in-orbit services.
Xplore Inc. signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd. to use OrbAstro’s satellite buses for a variety of missions.
Orbital Astronautics develops satellite platforms and all subsystems in-house to support comprehensive satellite and constellation operations.
Xplore selected OrbAstro’s ORB-6 platform for its first flight, which is scheduled for late 2022.
Aliena’s microsatellite-class engines, named MUSIC, will be first deployed on a 12U smallsat platform in 2023 on Orbital Astronautic’s ORB-12 Strider mission.
Digantara Research and Technologies signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd to fly its SCOT (Space-based space Climate and Object Tracker) payload onboard an ORB-6 satellite platform.
Orbital Astronautics Ltd. is building the Guardian Network, an infrastructure to provide low-latency access to customer satellites through an in-orbit data relay network.
Digantara Research and Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd. to fly the SCOT (Space–based space Climate and Object Tracker) payload onboard an ORB-6 satellite platform launching toward the end of 2022.
Orbital Astronautics Ltd. is building its own satellite constellation to provide low-latency access and autonomous operations services for customer satellites.
Orbital Astronautics Ltd. is a United Kingdom and New Zealand based space technology company focused on providing space-as-a-service to companies that directly use satellites for their businesses.
Aistech Space SL signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd to fly Aistech’s first Guardian mission on a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission scheduled for launch in 2021-10-01.
The OrbAstro ORB-6 satellite platform is a 6U-class bus that will host an Aistech multi-spectral imaging payload.
Orbital Astronautics Ltd is highly vertically integrated and built all subsystems and satellite platforms from the ground up.
OrbAstro’s ORB-class platforms are designed to address constellation markets and include Ultrascale+ and LPDDR4 based onboard computing.
OrbAstro will seek to raise 2–£3,000,000in the coming year, preferably in the form of a loan.
OrbAstro expects its first satellite to launch in January 2022 as a secondary payload on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle carrying ISRO’s Oceansat 3.
OrbAstro will launch its first half-dozen smallsats in 2022.
The ORB-12 mission will test OrbAstro-developed subsystems including an optical transceiver, a synthetic aperture radar payload, a compact optical imaging system, an onboard artificial intelligence processing unit, and thermal management and electrical power systems.
OrbAstro announced a contract with Singapore-based Aliena PTE Ltd. on 2021-09-23 to fly Aliena’s propulsion hardware onboard OrbAstro’s first microsatellite.
OrbAstro has taken deposits for a dozen more satellites slated for launch in 2023 and 2024.