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Orbit Fab announced plans last month to launch a much larger tanker to geostationary orbit.
Orbit Fab signed a technology sharing agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory on 2021-10-13.
Orbit Fab has received $3,000,000 in contracts from the U.S. Air Force to flight qualify the RAFTI refueling port.
Orbit Fab expects the CRADA with the Air Force Research Laboratory to reduce the risk necessary to bring refueling to Department of Defense space assets.
Orbit Fab unveiled plans for an in-orbit refueling mission in geostationary orbit in late 2022 or early 2023.
Orbit Fab is the only announced customer for the IM-2 mission and its ride was arranged through the smallsat rideshare company GeoJump.
Sherpa-ES will perform a lunar swingby and return to geostationary orbit while delivering a payload for Orbit Fab.
Spaceflight Inc. signed new launch agreements with Astrocast, Canon Electronics, Capella Space, GeoJump, HawkEye 360, Orbit Fab, Loft Orbital, NASA, NearSpace Launch Inc. / Inter-Modal Holding LLC, Portland State Aerospace Society, Space Products and Innovation (SPiN), Spacemanic, University of Toronto Aerospace Team, Xona Space Systems, and several undisclosed U.S. government organizations.
The Orbit Fab geostationary tanker will carry more than 90.72 kg of hydrazine.
Orbit Fab was founded in 2018 and is based in California with plans to move to Colorado.
The Orbit Fab payload will reach geostationary orbit aboard a Spaceflight Sherpa-ES orbital transfer vehicle using a lunar flyby trajectory that passes around the far side of the Moon.
Orbit Fab launched its first fuel payload demonstration to a low sun-synchronous orbit in June.
Orbit Fab will launch a propellant tanker to geostationary orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 lunar lander mission projected for late 2022 or early 2023.
Spaceflight has signed new launch agreements with Astrocast, Canon Electronics, Capella Space, GeoJump, HawkEye 360, Orbit Fab, Loft Orbital, NASA, NearSpace Launch Inc., Inter-Modal Holding LLC, Portland State Aerospace Society, Space Products and Innovation (SPiN), Spacemanic, University of Toronto Aerospace Team, Xona Space Systems, and several undisclosed U.S. government organizations.
Orbit Fab plans to build a range of tankers and fuel shuttles in low Earth orbit, geosynchronous orbit, and cislunar space that can connect with aging satellites and distribute fuel.
Orbit Fab raised more than $10,000,000 in its latest funding round from vendors including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, bringing the company’s total funding to $17,000,000.
Orbit Fab is expanding beyond low Earth orbit with a ride on the GEO Pathfinder mission.
Spaceflight will utilize a lunar flyby with its propulsive transfer vehicle Sherpa EScape (Sherpa-ES) to deliver a payload from GeoJump that will contain an Orbit Fab in-space fueling payload.
Orbit Fab launched its first payload, Tanker-001 Tenzing, in June on Spaceflight’s SXRS-5 mission on SpaceX’s Transporter-2.
To aid Orbit Fab in reaching GEO, Sherpa-ES will perform a lunar flyby and return to Earth targeting the final GEO altitude and inclination.