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 was chosen in 2021 to complete platform concept designs for two of the four first-round Astrophysics Pioneers missions.
Over its 24-year history, Space Flight Laboratory has developed CubeSats, nanosatellites, and microsatellites that have achieved more than 173 cumulative years of operation in orbit.
Since 1998, Space Flight Laboratory’s on-orbit heritage includes 72 satellites and distinct missions in Earth observation, atmospheric monitoring, ship tracking, communications, RF geolocation, technology demonstration, space astronomy, solar physics, space plasma, and other scientific research.
Space Flight Laboratory offers a complete suite of nano-, micro-, and small satellites for missions ranging from 3 to 500 kg.
Space Flight Laboratory will support the launch, commissioning, and operation of StarBurst and Aspera, which are tentatively scheduled for launch in 2025.
Space Flight Laboratory will develop the StarBurst platform on an ESPA-Grande variant of its scalable DAUNTLESS bus.
Space Flight Laboratory will develop the Aspera platform using a larger variant of its scalable DEFIANT microsatellite platform.
Spaceflight has signed new launch agreements with Astrocast, Canon Electronics, Capella Space, GeoJump, HawkEye 360, Orbit Fab, Loft Orbital, NASA, NearSpace Launch Inc., Inter-Modal Holding LLC, Portland State Aerospace Society, Space Products and Innovation (SPiN), Spacemanic, University of Toronto Aerospace Team, Xona Space Systems, and several undisclosed U.S. government organizations.
NorSat-4 will be built on Space Flight Laboratory’s DEFIANT microsatellite platform, a variant of the NEMO platform that uses a separation system rather than a dispenser.
Space Flight Laboratory has a contract to develop the NorSat-4 satellite for the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA).
Since 1998, Space Flight Laboratory’s on-orbit heritage includes 72 satellites across Earth observation, atmospheric monitoring, ship tracking, communications, RF geolocation, technology demonstration, space astronomy, solar physics, space plasma, and other scientific research missions.
HawkEye 360’s satellites were built on a satellite bus designed by the UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory.
HawkEye 360’s Cluster 3 satellites were built on a bus designed by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory and contain a state-of-the-art RF payload developed by HawkEye 360.
HawkEye 360’s satellites were built on a bus designed by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory and contain an RF payload developed by HawkEye 360.
StarBurst will focus on neutron star research using a 250 kg smallsat built by Space Flight Laboratory.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center contracted Space Flight Laboratory to develop a smallsat platform for the StarBurst astrophysics mission.
Other Space Flight Laboratory-built satellites launched in the eight months prior to NorSat-3 included missions for Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, GHGSat Inc., HawkEye 360, Space-SI, and a Canadian-based telecommunications company.
Space Flight Laboratory built the NorSat-1 and NorSat-2 maritime tracking smallsats that are currently on orbit.
Space Flight Laboratory is developing the NorSat-TD (Technology Demonstrator) satellite that is slated for launch in 2022.
Space Flight Laboratory offers a suite of smallsats that cover mission masses from 3 to 500 kg.