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UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory (SFL)

CA
commercialFounded 1998
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Space Flight Laboratory has a 25-year track record of building high-performing satellites on time and within budget.

NARRATIVE GENERAL7/19/2023Space Flight Laboratory’s Telesat LEO 3 Microsatellite launches and deploys

LEO 3 was built by the University of Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory for Telesat and is the largest spacecraft on the 2023-07-17 launch.

NARRATIVE GENERAL7/18/2023Electron launches seven smallsats in latest step towards reusability

The Space Flight Laboratory has integrated the communications payload with the LEO 3 bus and successfully completed vibration and electromagnetic compatibility testing of the spacecraft.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT6/1/2023Telesat Awards Contract to Space Flight Laboratory for the Manufacture of LEO 3 Demonstration Satellite

Space Flight Laboratory integrated the communications payload with the LEO 3 bus and successfully completed vibration and electromagnetic compatibility testing of the spacecraft.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT5/31/2023Telesat selects Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) to manufacture LEO 3 demo satellite

Space Flight Laboratory launched and successfully deployed nine satellites at 06:48 UTC on 15 April 2023.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT4/19/2023Space Flight Laboratory Successfully Launches Nine Satellites to Support Four Micro Space Missions

SFL is providing technical support for integration of Clusters 7, 8, 10, and 11 at HawkEye 360's new manufacturing facility in Virginia.

NARRATIVE GROWTH11/15/2022Space Flight Laboratory Awarded Contract for Development of HawkEye 360 RF Geolocation Microsatellites

Space Flight Laboratory won a contract to support development of HawkEye 360 satellites that pinpoint the location of radio frequency signals.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/14/2022SFL offers flexible support for HawkEye 360 constellation

Spaceflight signed multiple new customers for rideshare and launch services in 2021, including GeoJump, Portland State Aerospace Society, SPiN, Spacemanic, University of Toronto Aerospace Team, and Xona Space Systems.

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