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Muon Space has launched two satellites to date: a demonstration mission in June 2023 and a prototype weather satellite in March 2024.
The SBIR Phase 2 agreement announced 2024-12-05 aims to assess whether Muon Space’s instruments can provide high-resolution imagery of cloud cover and weather conditions for military and intelligence operations.
Muon Space is partnering with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance to deploy a constellation of FireSat satellites in low Earth orbit to monitor wildfires and related environmental phenomena.
Muon Space will launch a FireSat pathfinder satellite in 2025 ahead of phase one of the FireSat Constellation.
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.
Muon Space is working with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance to build a satellite constellation focused on prevention and monitoring of wildfires.
Muon Space’s long-term goal for the FireSat network is more than 50 satellites with revisit times for most of the globe improving to 20 minutes.
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 raised $10,000,000 in a 2021 seed funding round.
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.
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.
The additional funding announced in July expands the scope of Muon Space’s original contract awarded in September 2022 to develop a space-based prototype for global weather sensing.
The additional funding for Muon Space to collect ionospheric data on MuSat-2 was announced in July as an expansion in scope to an original contract awarded in September 2022 to develop a space-based prototype for global weather sensing.
In 2022, Muon Space received a $2,800,000 contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit to deliver terrestrial weather products to the Air Force 557th Weather Wing.
Muon Space will start deploying Hydrosat’s production agriculture-focused infrared constellation as part of the companies’ collaboration.
Muon Space is developing the next-generation ESPA-class spacecraft at its manufacturing facility in Mountain View, California.
Muon Space intends to launch MuSat-2 and MuSat-3 soon to establish a regular launch cadence for a growing climate intelligence constellation.
Muon Space intends to launch MuSat-2 and MuSat-3 soon to establish a regular launch cadence for a growing climate intelligence constellation.
Muon Space selected Exolaunch for Exolaunch’s expertise with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and for Exolaunch’s flight heritage of more than 320 launched satellites.