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Space Flight Laboratory offers a complete suite of nano-, micro-, and small satellites, including CubeSats, that serve missions in the 3 to 500 kg range.
Since 1998, Space Flight Laboratory’s heritage includes 65 distinct on-orbit missions related to Earth observation, atmospheric monitoring, ship tracking, communications, RF geolocation, technology demonstration, space astronomy, solar physics, space plasma, and other scientific research.
SFL built three formation-flying radio-frequency geolocating microsatellites on its 30-kg DEFIANT platform for HawkEye 360 Inc.
SFL’s NAUTILUS smallsat platform debuted on 2020-09-02 with the launch of the NEMO-HD Earth observation mission for Slovenia.
The 2021-01-24 SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare carried three different SFL-designed smallsat platforms into orbit for three separate commercial constellations.
SFL developed eight commercial communications cubesats using its 6U-XL SPARTAN design for the 2021-01-24 launch.
GHGSat Inc. awarded SFL the development contracts for GHGSat-C1 ("Iris") and GHGSat-C2 ("Hugo") after SFL built and launched the pathfinding GHGSat-D ("Claire") atmospheric monitoring smallsat in 2016.
In November 2020, SFL was awarded a contract by GHGSat to build an additional three smallsats for GHGSat’s commercial greenhouse gas monitoring constellation.
SFL built platforms and integrated the HawkEye 360 Pathfinder cluster that launched into low Earth orbit in December 2018.
The DEFIANT smallsat deployment on 2021-01-24 marked the third entirely new smallsat platform developed by SFL to reach orbit in the five months prior to that launch.
SFL’s satellite technology was selected for the HawkEye 360 Constellation mission because formation flying by multiple satellites is required for RF geolocation and analysis.
Space Flight Laboratory deployed 12 satellites on 2021-01-24 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
For the 2021 launch, SFL developed the larger DEFIANT bus to accommodate advanced onboard technologies.
SFL built one next-generation greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellite known as GHGSat-C2 or "Hugo" on its 15-kg NEMO platform for GHGSat Inc. of Montreal, Canada.
SFL’s heritage of on-orbit missions dates from 1998 and includes 65 distinct missions related to Earth observation, atmospheric monitoring, ship tracking, communication, RF geolocation, technology demonstration, space astronomy, solar physics, space plasma, and other scientific research.
The satellite buses for HawkEye Cluster 2 were manufactured by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory.
The satellite buses for HawkEye 360’s Cluster 2 were manufactured by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory.
SFL developed GHGSat’s first three satellites around its 15-kilogram microsatellite platform called Next-generation Earth Monitoring and Observation (NEMO).
Space Flight Laboratory built the pathfinding GHGSat-D microsatellite, also known as Claire, which was launched in 2016.
Space Flight Laboratory has developed CubeSats, nanosatellites, and microsatellites that have achieved more than 128 cumulative years of operation in orbit.