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Skykraft's planned services include multilateration for validation of ADS-B and UAT messages received from aircraft and for providing independent aircraft position data in the event of GNSS failure.
Skykraft is collaborating with Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) on a space-based solution to track aircraft and provide global communications between pilots and air traffic controllers regardless of aircraft location.
A Skykraft prototype Air Traffic Management satellite stack launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2023-06-12.
A further 12 satellites will be manufactured at the Skykraft facility in the second half of 2022.
Skykraft opened a manufacturing facility at the UNSW Canberra City campus in Canberra.
The capital raised will be used to design, build, and launch Skykraft’s Block II validation satellites, a nine-smallsat constellation scheduled to launch in June 2022 on SpaceX.
Skykraft completed ground testing and validation of its Block I smallsat, Majura, in June 2021.
Skykraft signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Airservices Australia in December 2020 to explore and demonstrate space-based surveillance and communication technologies for the aviation ecosystem.
Skykraft will launch a single satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from the USA in June 2022.
Momentus plans to launch a second Skykraft microsatellite in late 2021 under its launch services agreement with Skykraft.