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QSpace Technologies (Skolkovo)Manufacturer
QSpace Technologies (Skolkovo)Meteor-M No. 2-3
6/27/2023
Saturn intends to acquire NovaWurks, a California company that has been developing smallsats using modular expandable platforms.
Saturn will fly one or two NationSat small geostationary satellites on an OmegA rocket launching from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B in the spring of 2021.
Saturn originally sized NationSats between 600 and 1,700 kg but resized the largest NationSats to around 1,000 kg after switching from chemical to electric propulsion.
Northrop Grumman agreed to launch one or two of Saturn’s NationSat small geostationary communications satellites on the maiden flight of OmegA.
In December, Saturn agreed to launch one or two NationSat small geostationary communications satellites on OmegA’s maiden flight.
SWISSto12 will market geostationary telecommunications satellites based on Saturn’s MicroGEO bus, which provides payload power of approximately two kilowatts.
Saturn will market geostationary telecommunications and high-throughput satellites based on the ISN and Nationsat buses, which are designed to offer power of approximately five kilowatts.
Saturn CEO Thomas Choi frames the cooperation with SWISSto12 as strengthening Saturn’s mission to provide robust and affordable satellite platforms for nations lacking resources for space-based services.
Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn product with deep-space enhancements will provide Quantum Space with a quiet, stable, and agile spacecraft architecture for QS-1.
Saturn has executed a launch agreement with a U.S.-based company to deploy its first satellite to NGSO in the second half of 2024.
Saturn offers a version of the ISN platform designed for non-geostationary orbit (NGSO).
The Intelligent Space Node (ISN) platform is an evolution of the NationSat platform that Saturn developed three years earlier after investing in NovaWurks.
Raytheon is using Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn buses to build seven satellites for the Space Development Agency.
The Blackjack program provided on-orbit flight heritage for Blue Canyon’s Saturn buses.
Saturn purchased 30 percent of NovaWurks in 2019 and obtained an option to buy the remaining 70 percent.