Fleet Space Technologies operates the Centauri satellite constellation that includes Centauri-3, Centauri-4, Centauri-5, and Centauri-6.
Centauri-3 was launched in March 2021.
Centauri-6 joins Fleet Space Technologies’ existing satellites Centauri-3 (launched March 2021), Centauri-4 (launched June 2021), and Centauri-5 (launched May 2022) in Fleet Space’s satellite constellation.
Centauri 3 is Fleet Space Technologies’ fifth commercial nanosatellite of a planned 140-satellite constellation and will demonstrate Industrial Internet of Things capabilities by linking multiple remote sensors monitoring critical infrastructure with central base stations 24 hours a day.
Two Tyvak-built cubesats named Myriota 7 and Centauri 3 were launched in March by Rocket Lab for Australian companies Myriota and Fleet, respectively.
Fleet Space’s Centauri 3 is a newly designed 6U smallsat that will join Fleet Space’s planned constellation of 140 Industrial Internet of Things satellites in low Earth orbit.
Centauri 3 will test new hardware and space systems developed by Fleet Space to support the 2023 Seven Sisters resource exploration mission.
Fleet Space plans to launch two more smallsats in the same year as Centauri 3 and a further 16 smallsats during 2022 and 2023.
Centauri 3 launched from New Zealand’s Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula aboard a Rocket Lab Electron mission named They Go Up So Fast.
Fleet Space Technologies successfully launched the Centauri 3 smallsat on 2021-03-23.
Centauri 3 will test technologies for a proposed lunar smallsat mission being studied by a team of Australian companies in addition to providing internet-of-things services.
Centauri 3 will join Fleet Space Technologies’ planned 140-strong constellation of small satellites.
The Centauri 3 spacecraft is a newly designed 6U smallsat that will operate in low Earth orbit at 550 km.
Centauri 3 will power Fleet Space Technologies’ global network of connected devices deployed across resource and mining industries.
The Centauri 3 payload and satellite bus/avionics integration was performed in collaboration with American operator Tyvak and Tyvak International in Italy.
The communication payload on Centauri 3 was developed in-house by Fleet Space Technologies engineers and offers a 119x improvement in data capacity compared with the Centauri 2 payload.
Centauri 3 will test new hardware and space systems developed by Fleet Space that will support the 2023 Seven Sisters resource exploration mission.