LeoStella is a state-of-the-art company that specializes in designing and manufacturing small satellites (smallsats) cost-effectively and at scale. As a joint venture between Thales Alenia Space and BlackSky, LeoStella focuses on transforming constellation construction to meet the growing demand for efficient satellite production. Their primary product is small satellite buses, like the LS-300, and they have partnerships with companies like Loft Orbital, BlackSky, and Safran, and also works with the Space Development Agency (SDA). LeoStella aims to provide agile solutions for various missions, delivering critical space infrastructure for government and commercial clients.
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LeoStella can currently produce 40 satellites per year and designed its factory floor space so it can increase capacity to 200 satellites per year.
LeoStella produces satellites for customers including Cloud Constellation, Loft Orbital, and NorthStar.
LeoStella sees opportunities to compete for Space Development Agency contracts because the SDA plans to buy satellite batches from multiple commercial vendors.
LeoStella is a joint venture between Thales Alenia Space and BlackSky Holdings that was formed in 2018 to produce satellites for BlackSky’s constellation of Earth-imaging satellites.
LeoStella can produce 40 satellites per year and its factory floor space is designed so capacity can be increased to 200 satellites per year.
LeoStella is producing satellites for customers including Cloud Constellation, Loft Orbital, and NorthStar.
BlackSky 7 was built by LeoStella’s manufacturing line where an additional 16 BlackSky satellites are in production.
BlackSky’s Gen-2 satellite was designed and manufactured by LeoStella.
LeoStella produced the nine BlackSky Gen-2 satellites that are being delivered to Rocket Lab’s launch site in New Zealand.
LeoStella produced the nine BlackSky Gen-2 satellites that were delivered to Rocket Lab’s launch site in New Zealand.
BlackSky’s Gen-2 satellite was designed and manufactured by LeoStella.
BlackSky 7 is another satellite produced on the LeoStella manufacturing line where an additional 16 BlackSky satellites are in production.
Thales Alenia Space will provide optical instrument expertise and support Skylark via Leostella multi-mission platforms.
LeoStella is providing the Skylark satellite platform and assembly, integration, and test facilities in Tukwila for final assembly and delivery.
The Skylark satellites are based on LeoStella’s LEO-100 bus and will be assembled at LeoStella’s factory near Seattle.
Skylark smallsats will be based on LeoStella’s LEO-100 Multi-Mission Bus and a compact optical instrument.
Thales Alenia Space will build the first three Skylark satellites in conjunction with LeoStella, NorthStar’s smallsat manufacturing joint venture with BlackSky.
The Gen-3 design is a larger modified version of the 50-kilogram Gen-2 satellites produced by LeoStella.
Brian Rider is CTO of LeoStella and is a panelist on the 2020-08-06 smallsat builders webinar.
The YAM-3 satellite is being built by LeoStella, a joint venture of Thales Alenia Space and BlackSky.