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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Space Flight Laboratory offers a suite of smallsat buses and services for missions ranging from 3 to 500 kg.
CanX-7 was a 10 x 10 x 0.34 m nanosatellite built by Space Flight Laboratory.
Space Flight Laboratory deployed four drag sails on CanX-7 on 2017-05-04.
CanX-7’s mission included testing Space Flight Laboratory’s deorbiting drag sail technology.
Space Flight Laboratory designed the drag sails to decrease CanX-7’s ballistic coefficient and use atmospheric drag to accelerate orbital decay.
Space Flight Laboratory successfully deorbited the 3.5 kg CanX-7 nanosatellite using drag sail technology.
In the past two years Space Flight Laboratory developed 16 communications CubeSats and three microsatellites designed for Earth observation, maritime tracking, and atmospheric monitoring.
Space Flight Laboratory offers a suite of nano-, micro-, and small satellites ranging from 3 to 500 kg, including high-performance, low-cost CubeSats.
Over its 24-year history, Space Flight Laboratory has developed satellites that have achieved more than 191 cumulative years of operation in orbit.
Space Flight Laboratory was selected for HawkEye 360 missions because formation flying by multiple satellites is important for successful RF geolocation.
Space Flight Laboratory has developed 15 smallsats for HawkEye 360 of Herndon, Virginia.
Six smallsats developed by Space Flight Laboratory were launched on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission on 2022-05-25.
Space Flight Laboratory developed attitude control technology for precise pointing of sensors aboard low-inertia platforms on orbit.
Space Flight Laboratory performed successful vibration testing of the XALT launch adapter that will mount GHGSat-C3, C4, and C5 and their XPOD Delta deployer to a single 15-inch port on the launch vehicle.
All GHGSat high-resolution satellites developed by Space Flight Laboratory are built on the SFL 15-kilogram Next-generation Earth Monitoring and Observation (NEMO) microsatellite platform.
Space Flight Laboratory offers a suite of nano-, micro-, and small satellites covering mission sizes from 3 to 500 kg, including high-performance, low-cost cubesats.
GHGSat first selected SFL in 2013 to develop the GHGSat-D demonstration satellite known as Claire to prove on-orbit stability and sensor pointing on a small satellite platform.
SFL has been awarded contracts to build two smallsats for the NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program.
Spaceflight signed multiple new customers for rideshare and launch services in 2021, including GeoJump, Portland State Aerospace Society, SPiN, Spacemanic, University of Toronto Aerospace Team, and Xona Space Systems.
Space Flight Laboratory will provide the spacecraft platforms, perform system integration, and conduct system testing for the StarBurst and Aspera missions.