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Muon Space projects the first phase of the FireSat constellation will launch in 2026 and will consist of three Muon Halo satellites equipped with six-band multispectral infrared instruments.
A second Muon Space satellite launched 2024-03-04 on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare flight as a prototype weather satellite for the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit.
Muon Halo is an integrated hardware and software platform developed by Muon Space for customers seeking space-based data without developing spacecraft, ground networks, or data-processing capability themselves.
The National Reconnaissance Office tapped Muon Space to provide multispectral electro-optical and infrared data from Muon Space’s future climate-monitoring constellation.
Muon Space raised $10,000,000 in a 2021 seed funding round.
The 10 Muon Space satellites under contract are scheduled to launch in 2025 and 2026 for commercial, government, and nonprofit organizations.
Muon Space raised $25,000,000 in a 2022 Series A funding round.
Muon Space is earning more than $60,000,000 designing, building, and operating remote-sensing satellites for customers.
Muon Space planned to sell end-to-end constellation services since the company was founded in Mountain View, California, in 2021.
Muon Space has contract wins valued at over $60,000,000 to design, build, and operate 10 satellites with remote sensing payloads ranging from 150 kg to 500 kg scheduled to launch throughout 2025 and 2026.
MuSat is Muon Space's configurable spacecraft platform deployed in configurations spanning 100 kg to 500+ kg mass, 50 W to over 1 kW of power, multi-Gbps communications bandwidth, and high-precision, agile pointing.
MuSim is Muon Space's scalable mission simulation engine and digital twin platform that the company develops at high fidelity for every constellation deployed to accelerate mission lifecycle and operations.
The 10 Muon Halo satellites are scheduled to launch throughout 2025 and 2026.
Muon Space secured Muon Halo contract wins valued over $60,000,000 to design, build, and operate 10 satellites ranging from 150 kg to 500 kg with remote sensing payloads.
Muon Space was one of five companies selected by the Defense Innovation Unit in October 2022 to demonstrate new approaches to addressing Space-based Environmental Monitoring gaps.
MuSat2 includes Muon Space's advanced space-qualified software-defined radio system that performs high-speed bi-directional communications and produces science-quality radio frequency signal observations with very high bandwidth.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Weather Systems Branch awarded Muon Space an option to its contract in July 2023.
Muon Space's first satellite launched in June 2023, and MuSat2 followed nine months later.
Muon Space designed MuSat2 to use signals of opportunity from GPS and other satellites to produce high-gain, dual-polarization, bi-static radar measurements for Department of Defense customers.
Muon Space will perform a feasibility study to determine the benefit of modifying its multispectral Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) instrument to support the Department of Defense’s cloud characterization observation capability.