Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is a small satellite prime delivering high-performance constellation solutions, and is a vertically integrated provider of affordable, small to medium-sized, advanced spacecraft and constellations to support LEO, MEO, GEO, and deep space missions. They design, manufacture, and deliver flight-proven small satellites and space systems, including the ALTAIR™ and AQUILA™ platforms, for government, civil, and commercial space customers. Millennium Space Systems works with partners such as NASA and the U.S. Space Force, delivering solutions for national security, missile warning/defense, and Earth observation. Associated keywords: small satellites, constellations, spacecraft manufacturing, mission operations, Boeing.
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Millennium Space Systems partnered with the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command for Tetra-1 operations.
Millennium provided training, simulation, and confidence-building tools specifically designed for small satellite operations to Space Systems Command.
Millennium described geosynchronous satellites as operating at altitudes of about 35,786 m.
Millennium developed new operations tools to ease planning for station changes and to plan and execute on-orbit maneuvering for super GEO operations.
Tetra-1 operates in super GEO, which Millennium described as operating around 38,0 m.
Millennium delivered the Tetra-1 spacecraft and ground software to Space Systems Command to enable independent operation by SSC.
Millennium delivered the Tetra-1 satellite to Space Systems Command 13 months after winning the award through the SSC Space Enterprise Consortium’s other transaction authority.
Boeing acquired Millennium Space in 2018, a smallsat builder founded in 2001 in El Segundo, California.
Boeing has helped Millennium implement model-based engineering, additive manufacturing, and a factory to produce small satellites.
Millennium and Firefly Space Transport Services won contracts from U.S. Space Systems Command in 2022 to perform a Tactically Responsive Space mission.
Boeing and Millennium Space Systems merged in 2018.
Millennium’s Tetra-1 small satellite launched to geostationary orbit in November to test new U.S. Space Force missions.
Boeing helped Millennium qualify a printed metal satellite bus that offers cost, time, and mass savings.
The 2018 merger enabled Boeing and Millennium to win programs that each company would not have been able to win separately.
Firefly Aerospace won a $17,600,000 contract in September to launch a Millennium Space small satellite to low Earth orbit as part of the Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space program.
Millennium Space Systems is the manufacturer of WFOV, a mid-sized spacecraft equipped with an L3Harris infrared sensor payload.
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, completed a Critical Design Review for the U.S. Space Force's Missile Track Custody program mission payload.
Millennium Space issued a 2022-11-23 news release stating that the company’s MEO satellite passed a critical design review.
Millennium Space Systems will transition into space and ground segment development for a projected launch in 2026.
Millennium Space Systems was founded in 2001 and its small satellite missions support government, civil, and commercial space customers' needs across various orbits.