MP42

The MP42 microsat bus can accommodate payloads in the range of 50 kg and can withstand 25 kRad of radiation, enabling up to 10 years of lifetime in low Earth orbit depending on the orbit.

NanoAvionics’ MP42 bus is a "50-kilogram-plus" platform that is the company’s largest microsatellite to date as it expands beyond the 10-kilogram-and-under nanosatellite class.

The MP42 has an empty bus mass starting at 45 kg and a payload envelope beginning at 490 x 480 x 0.35 m that accommodates payloads of up to 75 kg.

The MP42 microsatellite bus family can host customer payloads of up to 145 kg and a total satellite mass of up to 220 kg.

The MP42 bus family can host customer payloads of up to 145 kg per satellite.

MP42 microsatellites provide inter-satellite links for both LEO-LEO and LEO-GEO communications to ensure uninterrupted real-time communications.

The middle MP42 bus, the MP42, has an empty bus mass starting at 45 kg and a payload envelope beginning at 490 x 480 x 0.35 m, accommodating payloads of up to 75 kg.

The smallest MP42 bus, the MP42H, has an empty bus mass starting at 18 kg and a payload envelope beginning at 280 x 325 x 0.28 m, accommodating payloads of up to 22 kg.

All MP42 microsatellites provide inter-satellite links for both LEO-LEO and LEO-GEO communications to support uninterrupted real-time communications.

The MP42 microsatellite bus weighs more than 50 kg and is NanoAvionics’ largest satellite bus to date.

The three Kongsberg-ordered spacecraft will be based on NanoAvionics’ MP42 microsatellite bus.

Kongsberg NanoAvionics has signed a contract to supply Constellr with two MP42 smallsat buses.

Startical has chosen NanoAvionics’s MP42 microsatellite bus, which weighs approximately 110 kg, for a series of tests lasting six months.

Kongsberg NanoAvionics will provide the MP42 bus, integrate the payload, and launch and execute the first mission operations to enable Startical’s experts to manage the ATM systems onboard.

NanoAvionics will provide the MP42 bus, integrate the payload, and perform the launch and first mission operations for Startical’s test mission.

Startical has chosen NanoAvionics’s MP42 microsatellite bus, which weighs approximately 110 kg, for a series of tests lasting six months.

NanoAvionics built its first microsatellite bus MP42 in 2021.

NanoAvionics plans to launch 14 satellites 2022, including its first microsat MP42.

The MP42 microsatellite was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in April of 2022 for NanoAvionics’s MP42 microsatellite bus heritage mission.

Kongsberg NanoAvionics signed a contract to supply Constellr with two MP42 microsatellite buses.