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Exolaunch is preparing to launch Loft Orbital’s YAM-3 satellite, built by LeoStella, on a Falcon 9 flight scheduled for December 2020.
Each LeoStella-built BlackSky satellite weighs 55 kg and is designed for a three-year service life.
The LeoStella-built satellites feature improvements in manufacturability, a rapidly commissionable imaging payload, and steam-powered propulsion units from Bradford Space.
Some of the LeoStella-built satellites will replace older BlackSky satellites to maintain a 16-satellite constellation.
LeoStella, a joint venture of Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space, is building 20 satellites under contract with BlackSky.
LeoStella is the joint venture between Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space tasked with building BlackSky’s constellation.
Once Mitsui completes its purchase of Spaceflight Industries’ launch business, Spaceflight will use the sale proceeds to repay the $26,000,000 loan and use any additional proceeds to pay down an undisclosed amount of overdue payments to LeoStella.
The eight planned BlackSky launches are part of a group of 20 satellites under production at LeoStella, Spaceflight Industries’ joint venture with Thales Alenia Space to manufacture small satellites.
Loft Orbital established a partner network in 2018 that includes satellite manufacturers LeoStella, Maxar Technologies, OHB/LuxSpace, Satrec Initiative, and Blue Canyon Technologies, along with partners in launch, ground communications, and analytics.
BlackSky is preparing to launch an Earth observation satellite built by LeoStella and equipped with Bradford’s Comet thruster on a Rocket Lab Electron mission scheduled for 2019-08-16.
LeoStella opened a smallsat factory in February near Seattle with design capacity to build up to 30 satellites per year once in full operation.
Choosing LeoStella reduced Cloud Constellation’s projected SpaceBelt deployment cost by $130,000,000.
Cloud Constellation selected LeoStella to build a system of 10 satellites for low Earth orbit.
The lower price of LeoStella’s offer reduces Cloud Constellation’s estimated total cost to deploy the SpaceBelt orbiting cloud storage system from $480,000,000 to $350,000,000.
LeoStella will be responsible for building the BlackSky constellation after the first four satellites that Spaceflight built.
Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight announced the LeoStella joint venture in March 2018 as part of a $150,000,000 Series C investment round for Spaceflight to support development of the BlackSky constellation.
LeoStella’s production facility is located in an office park in a Seattle suburb and includes a 10,000-square-foot production floor, a clean room, and other facilities needed to assemble small satellites.
LeoStella’s initial work is to build the remainder of BlackSky’s initial 20-satellite constellation.
The first two satellites to be assembled in the LeoStella factory, Global-5 and Global-6, should be completed in the summer.
LeoStella is seeking customers beyond BlackSky but has not announced any contracts with customers outside BlackSky.