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General Atomics

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commercialFounded 1955
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General Atomics adapted the ESPA design to develop its Orbital Test Bed satellite bus.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsTechnical ProductApr 9, 2020General Atomics opens satellite factory in Colorado

General Atomics acquired Alabama-based smallsat manufacturer Miltec in 2016.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsOrg RelationshipApr 9, 2020General Atomics opens satellite factory in Colorado

General Atomics plans to produce ESPA-class satellites at the Centennial, Colorado facility.

Mentioned as: general atomicsNarrative PlanApr 9, 2020General Atomics opens satellite factory in Colorado

General Atomics expanded its space business in recent years after acquiring two small satellite manufacturers.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsTechnical ProductApr 9, 2020General Atomics opens satellite factory in Colorado

Viasat used its RTE network to provide initial communications, control, and telemetry services to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Orbital Test Bed satellite after its June launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.

Mentioned as: General Atomics Electromagnetic SystemsOrg RelationshipAug 8, 2019Viasat expanding into crowded ground-as-a-service business

The caption for the SpaceX Falcon Heavy image was corrected on 2019-08-15 to state that the General Atomics Orbital Test Bed launch on 2019-01-25 did not include a hosted payload.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsNarrative GeneralAug 8, 2019What happened to the promise of hosted payloads? It’s complicated.

Viasat’s Real-Time Earth ground service provided ground station service support to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Orbital Test Bed satellite after its launch on 2019-06-25.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsOrg RelationshipJul 22, 2019Viasat’s Real-Time Earth Ground Service Provided Commissioning and Operations Support to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Orbital Test Bed Satellite

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Orbital Test Bed satellite is a hosted payload low-Earth-orbit spacecraft designed to provide customers affordable access to space to test and qualify various technologies.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsNarrative GeneralJul 22, 2019Viasat’s Real-Time Earth Ground Service Provided Commissioning and Operations Support to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Orbital Test Bed Satellite

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used the Hosted Payload Solutions contract vehicle to award General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems a $37,900,000 contract to install the Argos Advanced Data Collection System on an Orbital Test Bed satellite.

Mentioned as: general atomics electromagnetic systemsTechnical ProductJul 22, 2019Maxar to install NASA pollution sensor on commercial satellite

For the CLPS program, General Atomics will build the landers based on the ispace design to meet the program requirement that landers be manufactured in the United States.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsTechnical ProductJul 18, 2019Draper developing technologies for lunar landings

General Atomics pursues hosted payloads as a business model that requires coordinating the needs, schedules, and orbital accommodations of multiple customers.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsTechnical ProductJan 14, 2019General Atomics’ acquisitions of smallsat companies bearing fruit

General Atomics designed the Orbital Test Bed as a modular satellite that can be scaled from a tiny cubesat to a 1,000-kilogram platform.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsOrg RelationshipJan 14, 2019General Atomics’ acquisitions of smallsat companies bearing fruit

General Atomics bought the U.S. subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited in Englewood, Colorado, in 2017.

Mentioned as: general atomicsTechnical ProductJan 14, 2019General Atomics’ acquisitions of smallsat companies bearing fruit

General Atomics acquired Miltec, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, in 2016.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsNarrative GeneralJan 14, 2019General Atomics’ acquisitions of smallsat companies bearing fruit

The nine firms awarded $1,000,000 study contracts for Space Sensor Layer concept designs are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, Maxar Technologies, Draper Laboratories, Leidos, Millennium Space, and Boeing.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsNarrative FinancialOct 12, 2018Is Space Sensor Layer the Pentagon’s next major space program?

The companies awarded 2018-09-27 contracts to develop hypersonic weapon system concepts are BAE Systems, Boeing, General Atomics, L3 Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Draper Laboratories.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsOrg RelationshipOct 12, 2018Is Space Sensor Layer the Pentagon’s next major space program?

General Atomics acquired smallsat developer Miltec in February 2016 and purchased the Colorado factory of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.’s former U.S. subsidiary last November.

Mentioned as: General AtomicsOrg RelationshipOct 10, 2018Draper bids on NASA commercial lunar lander competition
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