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Skykraft’s manufacturing will then increase to build 210 satellites to provide global coverage in the company’s first constellation.
A further 12 satellites will be manufactured at the Skykraft facility in the second half of 2022.
Skykraft plans to have its operating satellite constellation launched during 2023.
The Skykraft manufacturing facility will have produced five satellites by 2022-06-30.
Enrico Palermo, Head of the Australian Space Agency, officially opened the Skykraft manufacturing facility.
Skykraft opened a manufacturing facility at the UNSW Canberra City campus in Canberra.
The Skykraft Canberra manufacturing facility will produce the 200+ satellites that will form the constellation providing Skykraft’s ATM services.
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's Australian-developed smallsats are designed to replace ground-based infrastructure for Air Traffic Management with space-based surveillance and communication services.
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 completed ground testing and validation of its Block I smallsat, Majura, in June 2021.
Skykraft closed a funding round of AUD$3,500,000 with participation from investors including Allan Moss and Adcock Private Equity.
Skykraft plans a full constellation of more than 200 Air Traffic Management satellites in 2023.
Skykraft and SpaceX have agreed to a follow-on to the Transporter-5 launch for Skykraft’s Air Traffic Management constellation.
The second tranche of Skykraft Air Traffic Management satellites will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 launch in October of 2022 under a signed contract.
Skykraft’s Space-based Air Traffic Management constellation will provide global surveillance and communication for all air traffic to improve the safety and efficiency of global air travel.
Skykraft’s smallsat technologies offer truly sovereign and sustainable capability to Defence programs including Space Domain Awareness (JP 9360), Satellite Communications (JP 9102), and Geospatial Intelligence (Def 799).
Skykraft designed and built the satellite in Canberra, Australia.
Skykraft will launch a single satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from the USA in June 2022.
Momentus sealed an agreement to launch Skykraft’s satellite in 2021.