This is Guardian-alpha, a 3U satellite entirely developed by Orbital Astronautics from the ground up. Launching in June with MOMENTUS 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...

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/o… Orbital Start-Up: orbastro.com/competitions/o…

Awesome Announcement! Aliena PTE Ltd has signed a service agreement with Orbital Astronautics 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.ht…

. SpaceNews captures our journey and next steps well in this piece 🦾🛰️

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/

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.

Great Announcement! @DigantaraIndia has signed a service agreement with Orbital Astronautics to deliver the pilot satellite for their space situational awareness constellation, launching in late 2022. Full press release here: orbastro.com/news/

Wonderful news! Xplore procures Orbital Astronautics satellites for a series of Earth Observation and Astronomy missions, with launches commencing in late 2022. prweb.com/releases/xplor…

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.

First fully commercial deep-space mission ever. Orbital Astronautics is building a 100kg-class spacecraft for AstroForge for an asteroid fly-by mission, launching in Q4-23 with Intuitive Machines on a SpaceX rocket. AstroForge: astroforge.io/updates/two-st… OrbAstro: orbastro.com/news/

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! SpaceNews