LunIR

Tyvak will manage LunIR’s spacecraft mission operations using ground station communication services provided by KSAT.

Tyvak will manage LunIR’s mission operations using ground station communication services provided by KSAT.

KSAT will provide ground network support to the LunIR mission in collaboration with Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation.

LunIR hosts a first-of-a-kind infrared sensor and a novel cryocooler developed by Lockheed Martin.

The 11 kg LunIR satellite will communicate with Earth via ground stations operated by Kongsberg Satellite Services in Punta Arenas, Chile; Svalbard, Norway; and Troll station, Antarctica.

Kongsberg Satellite Services operates ground stations in Punta Arenas, Chile; Svalbard, Norway; and Troll Station, Antarctica that will support LunIR communications.

LunIR is a Lockheed Martin-funded technology demonstration CubeSat that will take infrared images of the Moon to test an ultra-compact infrared sensor.

Terran Orbital expects to deliver the LunIR satellite for NASA in 2022 to support surface characterization, remote sensing, and site selection observations of the Moon and to launch on the Artemis I mission.

Terran Orbital designed, built, and integrated LunIR under contract with Lockheed Martin in support of Artemis 1.

Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) launched the lunar infrared imaging spacecraft LunIR as a secondary payload on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission from Kennedy Space Center on 2022-11-16.