Amber McIntyre is Senior Director of Civil Space at the Aerospace Industries Association and previously held roles at NASA, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and the Executive Office of the Vice President.
In July 2024, the ILR-33 Amber 2K, developed by the Łukasiewicz Institute of Aviation, became the first domestically built Polish rocket to reach space.
The ILR-33 Amber 2K was launched from the Andøya Space Centre in Norway and reached an altitude of 101 kilometres, powered by a hybrid core stage and two solid-fuel boosters.
Poland’s Łukasiewicz Institute of Aviation launched the ILR-33 Amber 2K, the country’s first rocket to cross the Kármán line and reach space, in July 2024.
The Amber™ Phoenix Mission satellite will be the first of a proposed constellation of more than 20 Amber™ payloads on-orbit to provide worldwide RF data to the JMSC and other customers with 30-minute latency.
The Amber™ Phoenix Mission will launch another Amber™ RF electro-optical payload into orbit in mid-2024.
Horizon Technologies was awarded a £1.2 million grant by the UK Space Agency as part of a £2.8 million Amber™ Phoenix Mission program.
Horizon Technologies’ original Amber™ payload was on one of eight smallsats lost in Virgin Orbit’s failed LauncherOne mission on 2023-01-09.
Some Amber™ payloads will be integrated into and deployed on electro-optical and SAR satellite constellations to provide tip-and-cue capabilities to end users.
The lost Horizon Technologies Amber™ payload flight was part of the Satellite Applications Catapult IOD-3 Program for which Horizon Technologies was competitively selected in 2019.
The Amber Phoenix Mission satellite is to be the first of a proposed constellation of over twenty Amber payloads in orbit to provide worldwide RF data to the JMSC and other customers with 30-minute latency.
Some Amber payloads will be integrated and deployed on Earth observation (EO) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellations to provide tip-and-cue capabilities to end users.
Horizon Technologies’ original Amber payload was on one of eight small satellites lost in the Virgin Orbit failed launch on 9 January 2023 when LauncherOne failed to reach the proper orbit.
The £1.2 million UK Space Agency grant to Horizon Technologies is part of a £2.8 million program called the Amber Phoenix Mission.
The Amber Phoenix Mission will launch another Amber RF Earth observation payload into orbit in mid-2024.
The lost Amber payload launch was part of the Satellite Applications Catapult IOD-3 Programme for which Horizon Technologies was competitively selected in 2019.
Amber IOD-3 was originally due to launch with Virgin Orbit in July 2022 but was delayed while the launcher sought permission to fly from the United Kingdom.
Horizon Technologies envisages a constellation of more than 20 Amber payloads in low Earth orbit to provide worldwide RF data with 30-minute latency.
Horizon Technologies ordered two other Amber surveillance satellites from AAC Clyde Space in 2021 that were initially slated to launch in 2022 but suffered production delays.
Amber IOD-3 was a 6U cubesat that was part of a program led by the Satellite Applications Catapult with Horizon Technologies as prime contractor.