The UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), established in 1998 at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), is a premier microspace organization that builds low-cost microsatellites and nanosatellites. SFL focuses on developing novel technologies for small spacecraft and offers complete end-to-end mission capabilities, including launch arrangements via its Nanosatellite Launch Service (NLS) and a mission control center. They collaborate with business, government, and academic institutions and train the next generation of aerospace engineers.
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HawkEye 360 selected Space Flight Laboratory to develop its satellites because attitude control and formation flying by multiple spacecraft are important for accurate RF signal geolocation.
Space Flight Laboratory performed development, integration, and testing for Cluster 9 at its Toronto facility.
HawkEye 360 Pathfinder satellites were built by Space Flight Laboratory on the 15 kg NEMO platform.
All subsequent HawkEye 360 clusters after the Pathfinder satellites have been developed on Space Flight Laboratory’s 30 kg DEFIANT bus.
Clusters 8 and 9 each consist of three satellites and together bring to 27 the total number of geolocation microsatellites developed by Space Flight Laboratory for HawkEye 360.
Space Flight Laboratory offers a suite of nano-, micro-, and small satellites that serve mission types ranging from 3 to 500 kg, including high-performance, low-cost CubeSats.
HawkEye 360 selected Space Flight Laboratory to develop its satellites based on the importance of attitude control and formation flying by multiple spacecraft for accurate RF signal geolocation.
Space Flight Laboratory confirmed that six radio frequency geolocation smallsats developed for HawkEye 360 have successfully communicated with ground control.
Space Flight Laboratory was established in 1998 and has developed 76 operationally successful smaller satellite missions totaling more than 300 cumulative years in orbit.
Space Flight Laboratory partnered with HawkEye 360 on upgrades to the satellite payloads for Clusters 8 and 9.
NOSA Senior Advisor Tyler Jones credited the pointing performance of Space Flight Laboratory’s DEFIANT bus and highlighted SFL’s flexibility in accommodating the SmallCAT terminal and working through payload evolutions with TNO.
The Norwegian Space Agency’s NorSat-TD demonstration microsatellite developed by Space Flight Laboratory transferred data to a ground station using optical communications technology.
NorSat-4 is under development at Space Flight Laboratory for a 2024 launch and will feature a first-of-its-kind low-light imaging sensor.
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory manufactured the HawkEye 360 Pathfinder satellites and remains a technology partner to HawkEye 360.
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) was established in 1998.
Since 2016, SFL has developed nine greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites for GHGSat of Montreal.
HawkEye 360 satellites are being built by the Space Flight Laboratory at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies and at HawkEye 360’s facility in Northern Virginia.
The GHGSat-D demonstration satellite CLAIRE was developed by Space Flight Laboratory and launched in 2016.
Space Flight Laboratory developed all nine operational 15-kilogram GHGSat spacecraft on the firm’s NEMO smallsat bus under contract to GHGSat.
EM Solutions collaborated with Space Flight Laboratory and Telesat on the transponder for the LEO 3 demonstration satellite.