MANTIS completed integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ahead of lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.
MANTIS, funded through the UK Space Agency and in partnership with ESA, is due to launch in the next few months and will produce high-resolution imagery to monitor logistics, energy infrastructure, and natural resources.
MANTIS is the first satellite to be launched under the ESA InCubed program.
Rosotics will begin delivering the Mantis 3D printer in the third quarter of 2023.
Rosotics unveiled the Mantis prototype on 2023-03-24.
The Mantis starting configuration uses one printhead to additively manufacture aluminum or steel structures ranging from 1.5 to 8 m in diameter.
Rosotics requires customers to place $95,000 deposits and sign hardware-as-a-service contracts to receive the Mantis.
The MANTIS nanosatellite is funded by the UK Space Agency through the European Space Agency InCubed programme.
MANTIS is due to join the OpenConstellation when the constellation launches later 2023.
The Mantis i45 N includes an upgraded 5-megapixel monochrome low-light camera sensor.
The Mantis i45 N features improved long-wave infrared (LWIR) thermal cameras with a narrow-angle 0.032 m IR and a wide-angle 0.009 m IR lens with 7.6x electronic zoom.
The agreement to fly Dragonfly’s Mantis imaging payload on NanoAvionics D2/AtlaCom-1 was reached in October 2020.
The five payloads on the NanoAvionics 6U D2/AtlaCom-1 nanosatellite are Dragonfly Aerospace’s Mantis hyperspectral imager, CubeCom’s high-gain XANT4 X‑Band antenna and an upgraded XTX X‑band downlink transmitter, CubeSpace’s CubeStar Star Tracker, and Accion Systems’ TILE Thruster.
Open Cosmos has 10 missions under development, including the MANTIS mission in partnership with ESA-Incubed and the UK Space Agency, which aims to provide high-resolution imagery and IOD6 in partnership with the Satellite Applications Catapult.
In 2019, Open Cosmos was designated to develop the Mantis Earth observation satellite.
Tethers Unlimited’s MANTIS is a payload that can collaborate with Astrobee using AstroPorter software.
The Mantis imager features a 16-meter native ground sample distance and a hyperspectral resolution of 32 m.