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The funding for ExoTrail’s contract stems from the France 2030 investment plan unveiled in 2021 that included 1,000,000,000 EUR for emerging French space companies.
ExoTrail announced a contract in May with the Defence Innovation Agency, which is part of the French Ministry of Defence.
The contract for ExoTrail was announced on 2022-10-11 and awarded through a competitive tender process.
ExoTrail plans to launch its first spacevan on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare flight in October 2023.
Airbus will be able to use Exotrail’s 300W class electric propulsion thruster in different configurations to meet different needs and requirements.
Airbus will obtain a new European source for Hall Effect propulsion thrusters through its agreement with Exotrail.
Seven additional companies, including Atomos, Exotrail, Firefly Aerospace, Launcher, Space Machines, Exolaunch, and Impulse Space, are preparing to enter the market with initial flights scheduled in the next three years.
Exotrail plans at least three subsequent SpaceVan™ missions throughout 2024 onboard multiple different launchers.
The debut SpaceVan™ mission will launch on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission in October 2023 under a launch service agreement between Exotrail and SpaceX.
Exotrail has raised over €20 million from venture capital funds and public grants.
Exotrail is a French-based space company that designs, develops, and operates end-to-end mobility solutions for an agile space.
Exotrail has raised more than 20,000,000 EUR in funding.
One of Exotrail’s propulsion systems is scheduled to fly around the Moon in 2022 on a U.S. satellite built by York Space Systems for Intuitive Machines.
Exotrail plans investments in its on-orbit service vehicle SpaceVan™, which is scheduled to fly at the end of 2023.
The full list of New Symphonie collaborators includes AEROSPACELAB, ANYWAVES, AVIO, CAILABS, DE-CIX, EXOLAUNCH, EXOTRAIL, FRESNEL ALLIANCE, GOMSPACE, GREENERWAVE, INTEGRASYS, KSAT, LOFT ORBITAL, QEST ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY, SATCONSULT, SECURE-IC, SENER, SITAEL, TESAT, and TRANSATEL.
York Space Systems plans to rely on Exotrail electric propulsion for a mission to provide Earth-to-moon communications services from cislunar orbit.
Exotrail will deliver its ExoMG – cluster² thruster to York Space Systems in 2022 under a contract signed in August.
ExoOPS™ – Mission Design is built on Exotrail's in-house flight dynamics and object-oriented core, ExoOPS™-Engine.
Thales Alenia Space is the latest addition to Exotrail's list of customers, which also includes CNES and Eutelsat.
Exotrail and Thales Alenia Space signed the contract in January.