Auriga Space, founded in 2022, is a space exploration company that focuses on providing alternative launch solutions. They are developing an electromagnetic space launch system to reduce mass and fuel needs for payload delivery. Auriga Space also offers a hypersonic lab accelerator named Prometheus for low-cost testing to government and commercial clients. Their goal is to revolutionize space access making it more efficient and frequent.
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Sodern will establish full production and manufacturing in the U.S. for the Auriga star tracker.
Auriga, a Mission 10 participant, raised a $4,000,000 seed round from the Seraphim investment fund.
The Auriga product line has been flight proven since 2019 with over 1,000 Auriga units in orbit and a mission success rate of 100%.
The Auriga-CP star tracker has a designed lifetime of 10 years in low Earth orbit between 400 km and 1,200 km.
The Auriga-CP star tracker is radiation-resistant with a thicker casing and spatial optics that allow a lifetime of over 15 years in geostationary orbit.
Sodern shipped 200 of an anticipated 1,800 Auriga star trackers to OneWeb.