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NovaWurks

US
commercialFounded 2011
Los Alamitos, California, United States
www.novawurks.com
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The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).

Mentioned as: NovaWurks Inc.Technical ProductOct 23, 2024SDA selects initial HALO pool for future prototype demos

The Intelligent Space Node (ISN) platform is an evolution of the NationSat platform that Saturn developed three years earlier after investing in NovaWurks.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksTechnical ProductDec 22, 2022Saturn Satellite Close to Secure $500 million for GEO Satellite Program

Saturn developed the NationSat platform after investing in California-based NovaWurks.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksOrg RelationshipDec 21, 2022Saturn finalizing funds for $500 million small GEO satellite program

Novawurks was founded in 2011 and has allowed employees who need to work outside the office to do so since its founding.

Mentioned as: NovawurksTechnical ProductSep 28, 2022Shift to remote work draws mixed reactions

Arkisys worked with Germany’s iBoss Space and Novawurks of Los Alamitos, California to develop the Applique interface connector.

Mentioned as: NovawurksOrg RelationshipSep 21, 2022Arkisys’ first flight to demonstrate universal interface adapter

NovaWurks performed its first in-orbit demonstration in 2017 on the International Space Station as part of the NASA-sponsored Satlet Initial Proofs and Lessons mission.

Mentioned as: novawurksTechnical ProductAug 9, 2022NovaWurks reveals contracts, expansion plans and Slego

NovaWurks' Payload Orbital Delivery Satellite PODSat-1 reached geostationary transfer orbit in 2018.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksNarrative GeneralAug 9, 2022NovaWurks reveals contracts, expansion plans and Slego

NovaWurks is working with Saturn Satellite Networks to jointly develop Saturn’s NationSat, a small geostationary communications satellite.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksOrg RelationshipAug 9, 2022NovaWurks reveals contracts, expansion plans and Slego

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Space Force provided NovaWurks three different spacecraft payloads with different thermal and field-of-view requirements to demonstrate quick-turnaround.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksTechnical ProductAug 9, 2022NovaWurks reveals contracts, expansion plans and Slego

Saturn purchased 30 percent of NovaWurks in 2019 and obtained an option to buy the remaining 70 percent.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksOrg RelationshipSep 8, 2021Swissto12 and Saturn collaborate on small GEO satellites

Nationsat is a digital platform for small geostationary satellites based on NovaWurks HISats identical modules that feature all basic satellite components including power, data processing, and pointing.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksTechnical ProductSep 8, 2021Swissto12 and Saturn collaborate on small GEO satellites

Saturn intends to acquire NovaWurks, a California company that has been developing smallsats using modular expandable platforms.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksTechnical ProductDec 12, 2019Saturn Satellite Networks to be first customer of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA

NovaWurks is a California company that has been developing small satellites using modular platforms that can be expanded.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksTechnical ProductDec 12, 2019Saturn Satellite Networks to be first customer of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA

On 2019-09-09, Saturn Satellite Networks signed a definitive agreement to acquire NovaWurks.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksOrg RelationshipSep 9, 2019Saturn Satellite Networks to acquire NovaWurks for cash, stock

NovaWurks developed HISats for the NASA SIMPL mission and NanoRacks deployed SIMPL from the International Space Station in 2017.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksOrg RelationshipSep 9, 2019Saturn Satellite Networks to acquire NovaWurks for cash, stock

NovaWurks developed the Hyper Integrated Satlet (HISat) modular satellite technology and has tested that technology in orbit since the company was founded in 2011.

Mentioned as: NovaWurksOrg RelationshipSep 9, 2019Saturn Satellite Networks to acquire NovaWurks for cash, stock