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 developed a system and digital model that enables accurate tracking of hypersonic glide vehicles and modern missile threats.
Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon were selected in May 2021 to design separate medium Earth orbit satellite concepts for the Space Force.
Millennium Space Systems pulled expertise from the GEO ALTAIR Pathfinder satellite program that launched in 2017 to develop Tetra-1.
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing company, delivered Tetra-1 in less than 15 months.
Tetra-1 was built by Millennium Space Systems under a 2018 contract.
The contract for the Victus Nox mission was awarded on 2022-09-30 to launch services provider Firefly Aerospace and satellite manufacturer Millennium Space.
The TacRS-3 contract requires Firefly to be given 24 hours’ notice to launch a Millennium Space small satellite to low Earth orbit.
Boeing purchased Millennium Space Systems in 2018.
Firefly Space Transport Services and Millennium Space Systems won contracts for the TacRS-3 mission, a space domain awareness small satellite projected to launch in 2023.
The Victus Nox mission will use a spacecraft to be built by Millennium Space.
U.S. Space Systems Command selected Firefly Space Transport Services and Millennium Space Systems on 2022-09-30 to conduct a demonstration of a rapid-response space mission to low Earth orbit in 2023.
Space Systems Command awarded a task order to Millennium Space Systems on 2022-08-15 to deliver the space and ground systems for VICTUS NOX.
Boeing acquired Millennium Space in 2018 to gain smallsat capabilities for NGSO networks.
Millennium Space worked on the Red-Eye experiment under a DARPA contract awarded in 2016.
Millennium Space Systems is setting up a dedicated small satellite factory within a 93,000-square-meter Boeing manufacturing plant where Boeing has produced 300 satellites.
The Boeing and Millennium factory applies advanced and additive manufacturing techniques, including 3D printing entire space-qualified satellite buses.
Boeing acquired Millennium Space Systems in 2018.
Through its integration with Millennium, Boeing has broadened its satellite portfolio to include smaller rapidly produced satellites in addition to large geostationary spacecraft.
Millennium plans to achieve full operational capability sometime in fall 2022, meaning all tooling, people, and processes will be in place.
Millennium Space Systems plans to launch to orbit a 3D-printed metal flight structure that the company intends to use to build its next generation of satellite buses.