Tiny satellites in large flocks
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28 Jun 2023
Our first 12U-class satellite has been despatched for launch next month via an ISRO PSLV, our 4th satellite launch of the year! This will be hosting a compelling AOCS; coupling an Aliena Pte Ltd Hall thruster with Aurora Propulsion Technologies resistojets!
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24 Jan 2023
First fully commercial deep-space mission ever. @OrbAstro is building a 100kg-class spacecraft for @AstroForge for an asteroid fly-by mission, launching in Q4-23 with @Int_Machines on a @SpaceX rocket.
AstroForge: astroforge.io/updates/two-st…
OrbAstro: orbastro.com/news/
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21 Mar 2022
We're hiring:
- Satellite Engineers
- Embedded Systems/FPGA Engineers
- Senior Electronics/RF Engineer
- Supply Chain & Procurements Manager
OrbAstro is scaling. Though we keep a low profile, we are a high-impact and high-tech space company achieving disproportionately.
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29 Jan 2022
Wonderful news! @xplorespace procures @OrbAstro satellites for a series of Earth Observation and Astronomy missions, with launches commencing in late 2022. prweb.com/releases/xplore_pr…
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4 Nov 2021
Great Announcement!
@DigantaraIndia has signed a service agreement with @OrbAstro to deliver the pilot satellite for their space situational awareness constellation, launching in late 2022.
Full press release here: orbastro.com/news/
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6 Oct 2021
Automation is central at OrbAstro. It allows us to achieve disproportionately.
e.g. assembly/integration/testing for our OBC involves measuring ~17k parameters over 60hrs, mostly in vacuum, generating ~93GB of data analysed live by our AI server in our 800teraflop datacentre.
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30 Sep 2021
Fantastic Announcement!
Aistech Space has selected Orbital Astronautics to deliver the pilot satellite for it's Guardian constellation, utilising an ORB-6 class satellite launching in Dec 2021 with SpaceX.
Full press release here: orbastro.com/news/
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23 Sep 2021
. @SpaceNews_Inc captures our journey and next steps well in this piece 🦾🛰️
23 Sep 2021
Smallsat specialist OrbAstro busy building downstream dreams spacenews.com/smallsat-speci…
23 Sep 2021
Awesome Announcement!
Aliena PTE Ltd has signed a service agreement with @OrbAstro to fly its smallsat propulsion system onboard a dedicated ORB-12 (24kg-class) satellite for in-orbit demonstration purposes. Launch scheduled, Sept 2022.
Press release: spaceref.com/news/viewpr.htm…
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23 Jul 2021
The Orbital Student & Orbital Start-Up competitions are back! Build & integrate a spacecraft payload, qualify it, have it flown in space, and gather data / gain flight-heritage / pilot a service.
Orbital Student: orbastro.com/competitions/or…
Orbital Start-Up: orbastro.com/competitions/or…
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21 Apr 2021
This is Guardian-alpha, a 3U satellite entirely developed by @OrbAstro from the ground up. Launching in June with @momentusspace on a @SpaceX Falcon 9. A lot of innovation: Ultrascale OBC, electric propulsion, full ADCS with dual star-trackers, SDR S-band Tx/Rx, long-life EPS...
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12 Apr 2021
Here is a mega-controversial one...
Today we reveal our modular electrical power systems. Flight-qualified; flight-heritage in June. We went back to first principles. It took dozens of iterations to get here.
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12 Apr 2021
With this available, it makes no sense to the continue with the current convention. EPS failure, due to low cycle lifetime/environ conditions, is one of the primary reasons for early decommissioning.
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12 Apr 2021
This comes as standard on our satellite platforms, 3U-16U: orbastro.com/satellites/orb-…
Be sure to follow us. We’re now revealing what we’ve been building at OrbAstro. Satellite, subsystems, batch production capabilities, testing facilities. There is serious engineering porn coming.
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10 Apr 2021
Today we are talking about our “satellite on a board”.
Flight-qualified, gaining flight-heritage in June. We've compressed what is typically seven 1U-scale PCBs onto one 80x75mm board.
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10 Apr 2021
Ultrascale FPGAs are known to struggle in the radiation environment. With radiation analysis using in-house tools and extensive testing, fault tolerance (SEU/SEL protection) has been implemented on both hardware/software and demonstrated successfully (400krad, 60MeV).
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10 Apr 2021
Most systems are based on TMR for fault-tolerant logic. EDAC is implemented on all memory units.
More here: orbastro.com/satellites/orb-…