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 for its missions because robust and accurate formation flying by multiple satellites is important for successful RF geolocation.
In April 2023, HawkEye 360 launched and deployed Cluster 7, the first three satellites integrated in-house by HawkEye 360 under the production plan created by Space Flight Laboratory.
Clusters 12 and 13 comprise six satellites being built on Space Flight Laboratory’s 30-kg DEFIANT platform.
Space Flight Laboratory’s Flex Production program gives clients the option of having satellites built at SFL’s Toronto headquarters or setting up in-house production capabilities at their own facilities with guidance from SFL.
Clusters 12 and 13 comprise six satellites built on Space Flight Laboratory’s 30 kg DEFIANT platform at HawkEye 360’s facility in Virginia under SFL’s Flex Production program.
HawkEye 360 selected Space Flight Laboratory for these missions because of SFL’s robust and accurate multi-satellite formation flying capabilities required for RF geolocation.
Cluster 7 launched and deployed in April 2023 as the first three satellites integrated in-house by HawkEye 360 as part of the production plan created by Space Flight Laboratory.
Space Flight Laboratory launched and successfully deployed nine satellites at 06:48 UTC on 15 April 2023.
Space Flight Laboratory has a 25-year heritage dating from 1998 that includes 69 operational missions.
Space Flight Laboratory designed microspace platforms carried on Transporter-7 for four different repeat customers.
SFL developed the pathfinding GHGSat-D ("Claire") atmospheric monitoring microsatellite for GHGSat Inc. in 2016.
Space Flight Laboratory built and launched the pathfinding GHGSat-D ('Claire') atmospheric monitoring microsatellite for GHGSat Inc. in 2016.
Space Flight Laboratory’s 25-year heritage dating from 1998 includes 69 operational missions and an additional 21 missions under development or awaiting launch.
Space Flight Laboratory was selected for the HawkEye 360 constellation mission after the 2018 launch of the HawkEye 360 Pathfinder cluster that demonstrated SFL’s formation-flying technology.
NorSat-TD is a microsatellite built by Space Flight Laboratory for the Norwegian Space Agency on SFL’s DEFIANT platform to carry multiple advanced or experimental payloads.
Three next-generation greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites, GHGSat-C6, GHGSat-C7, and GHGSat-C8, were built by Space Flight Laboratory on its 15-kg NEMO platform for GHGSat Inc. of Montreal, Canada.
Space Flight Laboratory built HawkEye 360 Clusters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 on its 30-kg DEFIANT bus at SFL’s Toronto headquarters.
Two commercial communications CubeSats were developed using Space Flight Laboratory’s 6U-XL SPARTAN design for a Toronto-based company and were assembled by the client at its own Toronto facility under the Flex Production program.
Space Flight Laboratory developed and launched GHGSat-1, GHGSat-2, GHGSat-3, GHGSat-4, and GHGSat-5 over the six years following GHGSat-D.
HawkEye 360 Cluster 7 is based on Space Flight Laboratory’s 30-kg DEFIANT platform and comprises three formation-flying radio frequency geolocating microsatellites.