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 will unveil a new facility in El Segundo, California with advanced tooling and test equipment intended to help deliver systems at a fast rate and high volume.
If the space test is successful, Millennium Space Systems plans to offer satellite buses that incorporate the 3D-printed flight structure.
Boeing acquired Millennium Space Systems in 2018.
Millennium Space Systems shipped the Wide Field of View satellite from its facility in El Segundo, California and delivered it safely on 2022-02-02.
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems delivered the Wide Field of View payload to a launch processing facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida in February.
Firms that focus on manufacturing satellites like Tyvak and Millennium Space Systems build a variety of satellites.
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems has demonstrated that 3D-printed smallsat buses offer a far faster production cycle time and are about 30% less costly than traditional bus structures.
Boeing acquired small satellite specialist Millennium Space Systems in 2018.
The only known payload for USSF-44 is the TETRA-1 small satellite manufactured by Millennium Space Systems.
Tetra-1 is the first of Millennium Space’s Altair satellite buses to qualify for operations in geosynchronous orbit.
A U.S. Space Force missile warning experimental satellite built on a Millennium Space bus is projected to launch to geostationary orbit in 2022.
Millennium Space and Raytheon are under 18-month contracts to develop digital prototypes that the Space Force will test and evaluate as a possible addition to the U.S. missile defense network.
Millennium Space won a 2018 Space Force Space Enterprise Consortium contract to produce Tetra-1, an experimental cubesat.
Millennium Space Systems designed and developed Dragracer in nine months.
Alchemy and its twin satellite Augury were launched in November 2020 as part of the Dragracer mission by Millennium Space Systems, TriSept Corp., Tethers Unlimited, and Rocket Lab.
Tetra-1, built by Millennium Space Systems, is scheduled to launch as part of the USSF-44 mission no earlier than October on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon are working under cost-sharing contracts awarded by the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium for digital payload designs.
Two Millennium Space small satellites launched to low-Earth orbit on 2020-11-19 on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle from New Zealand.
Two smallsats built by Millennium Space Systems were launched into low Earth orbit in November.
Millennium Space Systems announced on 2020-12-07 that an experiment launched to space the prior month will demonstrate a small satellite can safely deorbit in about 45 days.