NorthStar Earth & Space is a commercial company focused on space-based Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services. They are building a constellation of satellites, called SKYLARK network, to monitor objects in near-Earth orbits and provide services like space object tracking, collision prediction, and navigation assistance. NorthStar partners with organizations like Telespazio, SES, Spire Global, and ExoAnalytic Solutions, and receives funding from Telesystem Space, Luxembourg Future Fund, and the Canadian government. The company aims to deliver precise and timely information for Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management applications.
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NorthStar previously ordered three larger SSA satellites from Thales Alenia Space in cooperation with LeoStella that are now targeting launch in the second quarter of 2023.
Spire’s agreement with NorthStar is for an initial three 12-unit cubesats for launch in 2023 with an option to expand to a full constellation of dozens of satellites.
NorthStar, Privateer, Scout, Spaceable, and Digantara are startups developing businesses to improve space situational awareness data.
NorthStar opened a European headquarters in Luxembourg in December after the Luxembourg Future Fund joined a $45,000,000 funding round for the company.
The SES–NorthStar partnership will use data collected by NorthStar’s future fleet of spacecraft that will track objects from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit.
The three 12-unit cubesats will be operated for NorthStar by Spire as part of Spire’s space-as-a-service business model.
NorthStar provides space-based sensors and an intelligent platform designed to monitor traffic in space and transmit information rapidly.
NorthStar reached an agreement with Spire to launch three 12-unit cubesats with SSA sensors in 2023.
SES is working with Canadian startup NorthStar Earth & Space to develop space situational awareness data products to support SES’s fleet of communications satellites.
Nine founding members of Space Canada include Calian, GHGSat, Magellan Aerospace, Maritime Launch Services, MDA, Mission Control, NorthStar Earth & Space, SpaceBridge, and Telesat.
The Luxembourg Future Fund joined a $45,000,000 funding round for NorthStar Earth & Space in December 2021.
On 2022-03-16, Spire will develop three 12-unit cubesats for launch in 2023 that will carry sensors to collect space situational awareness data for NorthStar Earth & Space.
The first three satellites for the dedicated NorthStar-Spire constellation are anticipated to be launched early in 2023.
The Skylark satellites were originally scheduled to launch in 2022 but as of August 2021 NorthStar expected those satellites to launch no earlier than 2023 while securing Canadian government licenses.
Canada’s government conditionally approved NorthStar’s constellation on 2021-08-24, placing the company on track for a formal license ahead of launching the first satellites.
NorthStar is developing a 52-satellite constellation split between 12 Skylark SSA satellites and 40 spacecraft for monitoring Earth.
The Luxembourg Future Fund joined a $45,000,000 investment round for NorthStar on 2021-12-17.
ISED authorized NorthStar to use all requested Ka-band and X-band radio-frequency ranges for its planned constellation.
NorthStar will launch a further 40 satellites to augment Skylark with additional optical sensors and to deploy hyperspectral and infrared sensors for Earth observation capabilities.
NorthStar Earth & Space received approval in principle from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada authorizing use of the company’s requested radio frequency spectrum allocation for a planned 52-satellite constellation.