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Advanced Space

US
commercialFounded 2011
Westminster, Colorado, United States
www.advancedspace.com
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Leidos is a member of Advanced Space’s Oracle mission team and is providing space sensor optical payload technology for the Oracle spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipJan 12, 2023Advanced Space Awards Contract to General Atomics for AFRL Oracle Program

The award to Advanced Space was made through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) managed by the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL) using Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) authority.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 25, 2022Advanced Space Receives Contract from AFRL to Deliver Oracle Spacecraft Program

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, in collaboration with AFRL’s Transformational Capabilities Office, awarded Advanced Space a $72,000,000 contract to deliver the Oracle spacecraft program.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 25, 2022Advanced Space Receives Contract from AFRL to Deliver Oracle Spacecraft Program

The CAPSTONE mission includes a technology demonstration called the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) developed by Advanced Space to allow spacecraft near the Moon to determine their position without relying exclusively on Earth-based tracking.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceTechnical ProductNov 21, 2022A new path for NASA’s future Artemis Moon missions is forged by CAPSTONE

Once CAPSTONE finalizes insertion into NRHO, the team will prepare to demonstrate the CAPS software developed by Advanced Space to perform inter-satellite ranging with the goal of reducing ground station congestion.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceTechnical ProductNov 18, 2022Terran Orbital Developed CAPSTONE Successfully Enters Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit Around the Moon

Advanced Space developed the CAPS software for CAPSTONE to demonstrate inter-satellite ranging with the goal of reducing ground station congestion.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceTechnical ProductNov 14, 2022Making History: Terran Orbital-Developed CAPSTONE Enters NRHO Around the Moon

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Advanced Space a $72,000,000 contract on 2022-11-10 to build Oracle, a mission to test space situational awareness technologies beyond Earth orbit out to the moon.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 14, 2022CAPSTONE enters lunar orbit

CAPSTONE was designed, built, and integrated by Terran Orbital and led by Advanced Space of Westminster, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceNarrative GeneralNov 14, 2022Making History: Terran Orbital-Developed CAPSTONE Enters NRHO Around the Moon

Advanced Space is based in Westminster, Colorado and operates the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) experiment launched in June as part of NASA’s Artemis program.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 10, 2022Advanced Space wins $72 million Air Force contract for lunar experiment

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $72,000,000 contract to Advanced Space to develop an experimental spacecraft to monitor deep space beyond Earth’s orbit.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipNov 10, 2022Advanced Space wins $72 million Air Force contract for lunar experiment

EMCORE acquired the advanced space and navigation products of L3Harris on 2022-04-29.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipOct 26, 2022Emcore Showcases Industry’s Broadest Product Portfolios at ION GNSS+

China launched the Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory (ASO-S) on 2022-10-08 at 2343 UTC.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceNarrative GeneralOct 13, 2022China launches radar satellite for environmental monitoring

Terran Orbital Guidance Navigation and Control systems performed TCM-1 as designed by Advanced Space.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceNarrative GeneralJul 10, 2022Terran Orbital completes CAPSTONE’s first TCM burn

Advanced Space operates the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) cubesat.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceTechnical ProductJul 6, 2022CAPSTONE communications restored

CAPSTONE is funded by NASA and operated by Advanced Space, a Colorado-based startup.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipJul 5, 2022CAPSTONE suffers communications problem

NASA is spending about $30,000,000 on CAPSTONE across its contracts with Advanced Space and Rocket Lab.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceOrg RelationshipJul 4, 2022CAPSTONE heads to the moon

The SPP II missions include the Einstein Probe, the Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) which launched in 2020, the Advanced space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) launching 2022, and the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceNarrative GeneralJul 1, 2022Venus orbiter, lunar constellation and exoplanets telescopes among candidates as China selects new space science missions

Advanced Space won a NASA contract in 2019 to develop CAPSTONE to test the stability of the NRHO.

Mentioned as: advanced spaceOrg RelationshipJun 28, 2022Electron launches CAPSTONE lunar cubesat

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is a cubesat designed and built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a Terran Orbital Corporation, and owned and operated by Advanced Space.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceNarrative GeneralMay 16, 2022The CAPSTONE Smallsat Arrives Safely @ Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand + Payload Integration Started For The Lunar Orbit Mission

CAPSTONE will test a navigation system developed by Advanced Space that measures its absolute position in cislunar space using interaction with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Mentioned as: Advanced SpaceTechnical ProductMay 4, 2022Rocket Lab Supporting NASA’s Human Mission Return To The Moon
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