NanoAvionics Completes Standardization of Nano- and Microsatellite Buses
by Robert Schreiber
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Could 30, 2024
Throughout a reside broadcast, Kongsberg NanoAvionics (“NanoAvionics”) introduced the complete standardization of its nano- and microsatellite buses. This transfer goals to chop lead occasions to as little as 4 months for bus manufacturing, cut back prices, and improve reliability. The standardization allows faster and cheaper mission launches. For missions with particular necessities, NanoAvionics continues to supply personalized options.
NanoAvionics has additionally launched a brand new on-line configuration instrument, designed to streamline the ordering course of. This instrument gives clients with clear data on lead occasions, costs, and technical particulars, aligning with mission necessities.
Arnoldas Peciukevicius, director of product and mission improvement at NanoAvionics, commented, “The usual buses are a end result of a decade’s price of mission expertise and technological developments. Lowering complexity and obstacles to enter area at manufacturing and mission integration degree additional helps the expansion of the NewSpace sector, with the expectation to speed up it. This in flip allows startups and established companies alike to innovate and develop their space-based companies. It additionally helps different buyer segments reminiscent of governmental and analysis establishments.”
The trade is now coming into NewSpace 3.0, emphasizing mission longevity, efficiency, reliability, and interoperability. This follows NewSpace 2.0, which noticed a surge in personal capital funding and business launches surpassing governmental launches for the primary time. It additionally led to improvements in launch and satellite tv for pc expertise, new partnerships, and the rise of personal satellite tv for pc constellations.
NanoAvionics’s progress can also be attributed to the opening of its new MAIT (manufacturing, meeting, integration, and testing) facility in Vilnius, Lithuania, final 12 months. This facility has doubled the corporate’s satellite tv for pc manufacturing capability, additional lowering lead occasions and positioning NanoAvionics to satisfy the rising demand for satellite tv for pc constellations and bigger satellites by business, civil, and governmental organizations.
Inside its standardized satellite tv for pc buses, NanoAvionics gives three configurations (mild, mid, and max) for every kind issue, catering to numerous mission wants and functions with out intensive customization.
“This productisation effort of our standardised satellite tv for pc buses marks a major leap ahead within the firm’s mission to streamline satellite tv for pc deployment and improve the accessibility of area expertise,” Peciukevicius added. “Along with our three configurations, our buses have a broad market attraction, from Earth remark to telecommunications and past. This displays NanoAvionics’ dedication to facilitating a wider adoption of area applied sciences. The buses additionally incorporate the newest in aerospace expertise, guaranteeing excessive efficiency, reliability, and excessive mission success charges.”
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