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Orbital Astronautics

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OrbAstro worked closely with Xplore to create an affordable solution for highly demanding mission parameters.

Mentioned as: OrbAstroOrg RelationshipJan 26, 2022Xplore to fly sensors on OrbAstro nanosatellites

Orbital Astronautics develops satellite platforms and all subsystems in-house to support comprehensive satellite and constellation operations.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsTechnical ProductJan 25, 2022Xplore Contracts With OrbAstro To Acquire Smallsat Buses For A Variety Of Missions

Xplore Inc. signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd. to use OrbAstro’s satellite buses for a variety of missions.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsOrg RelationshipJan 25, 2022Xplore Contracts With OrbAstro To Acquire Smallsat Buses For A Variety Of Missions

Xplore selected OrbAstro’s ORB-6 platform for its first flight, which is scheduled for late 2022.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralJan 25, 2022Xplore Contracts With OrbAstro To Acquire Smallsat Buses For A Variety Of Missions

Aliena’s microsatellite-class engines, named MUSIC, will be first deployed on a 12U smallsat platform in 2023 on Orbital Astronautic’s ORB-12 Strider mission.

Mentioned as: orbital astronauticNarrative PlanJan 18, 2022Hall Thruster From Aliena Pte. Ltd. Empowers NuSpace’s NuX-1 Smallsat

Digantara Research and Technologies signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd to fly its SCOT (Space-based space Climate and Object Tracker) payload onboard an ORB-6 satellite platform.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsOrg RelationshipNov 10, 2021Digantara and OrbAstro announce service agreement for space debris tracking mission on 6U satellite

Orbital Astronautics Ltd. is a United Kingdom and New Zealand based space technology company focused on providing space-as-a-service to companies that directly use satellites for their businesses.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralNov 5, 2021UPDATED: Space Debris Tracking Mission Development Agreement Signed Between Digantara + OrbAstro

Orbital Astronautics Ltd. is building the Guardian Network, an infrastructure to provide low-latency access to customer satellites through an in-orbit data relay network.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralNov 5, 2021UPDATED: Space Debris Tracking Mission Development Agreement Signed Between Digantara + OrbAstro

Orbital Astronautics Ltd. is building its own satellite constellation to provide low-latency access and autonomous operations services for customer satellites.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralNov 5, 2021UPDATED: Space Debris Tracking Mission Development Agreement Signed Between Digantara + OrbAstro

Digantara Research and Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd. to fly the SCOT (Space–based space Climate and Object Tracker) payload onboard an ORB-6 satellite platform launching toward the end of 2022.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsOrg RelationshipNov 5, 2021UPDATED: Space Debris Tracking Mission Development Agreement Signed Between Digantara + OrbAstro

OrbAstro’s ORB-class platforms are designed to address constellation markets and include Ultrascale+ and LPDDR4 based onboard computing.

Mentioned as: orbastroTechnical ProductSep 30, 2021OrbAstro’s Smallsat Platform To Host Aistech Space’s Guardian Imaging Payload

Orbital Astronautics Ltd is highly vertically integrated and built all subsystems and satellite platforms from the ground up.

Mentioned as: Orbital Astronautics LtdTechnical ProductSep 30, 2021OrbAstro’s Smallsat Platform To Host Aistech Space’s Guardian Imaging Payload

Aistech Space SL signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd to fly Aistech’s first Guardian mission on a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission scheduled for launch in 2021-10-01.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsOrg RelationshipSep 30, 2021OrbAstro’s Smallsat Platform To Host Aistech Space’s Guardian Imaging Payload

The OrbAstro ORB-6 satellite platform is a 6U-class bus that will host an Aistech multi-spectral imaging payload.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsOrg RelationshipSep 30, 2021OrbAstro’s Smallsat Platform To Host Aistech Space’s Guardian Imaging Payload

OrbAstro aims to achieve 10-centimeter resolution in Ka-band with its planned multi-static SAR architecture within the next four to five years.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralSep 23, 2021Smallsat specialist OrbAstro busy building downstream dreams

OrbAstro will launch its first half-dozen smallsats in 2022.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative PlanSep 23, 2021Smallsat specialist OrbAstro busy building downstream dreams

OrbAstro will test an optical transceiver with a two-axis precision-steering mechanism for inter-satellite communications as part of its Guardian Network constellation used for data-relay and autonomous satellite operations.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralSep 23, 2021Aliena Signs Contract With Orbital Astronautics For ORB-12 Strider Mission

OrbAstro will seek to raise 2–£3,000,000in the coming year, preferably in the form of a loan.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsTechnical ProductSep 23, 2021Smallsat specialist OrbAstro busy building downstream dreams

OrbAstro will include a compact optical imaging system providing 1-metre ground resolution on the ORB-12 satellite.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralSep 23, 2021Aliena Signs Contract With Orbital Astronautics For ORB-12 Strider Mission

OrbAstro has five commercial satellites plus a pilot satellite scheduled to launch in 2022.

Mentioned as: Orbital AstronauticsNarrative GeneralSep 23, 2021Smallsat specialist OrbAstro busy building downstream dreams
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