Kongsberg NanoAvionics

Watching a #satellite learn to spread its wings - one of the most critical parts of its mission once in space - is always spectacular. But what goes into its "wing" design? In short - simplicity. Because: Simple design = Cost-effective + Easy to manufacture and assemble We embrace modularity so that our standard small satellite buses can be easily configured with single, double, or triple deployable solar panels, all sharing the same PCBs, honeycomb structures, and Hold Down Release Mechanisms, requiring minimal mechanical changes. This also streamlines assembly, reducing production time and costs so our customers can get their Earth observation, communication, or other missions to orbit cost-effectively and quickly. And as this video shows, testing also becomes faster when the panels are strong enough to support themselves under gravity and do not require elaborate deployment jigs, even if they span up to 1,5m each in triple-deployable configurations. Learn more about our standard microsatellite buses: https://lnkd.in/enY-dUUJ #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats

Our Director of Engineering Operations, Karolis Senvaitis, joined a panel on Emerging Trends in Satellite Manufacturing alongside industry leaders at Silicon Valley Space Week, diving into what's shaping the industry's future.   Satellite manufacturing has come a long way, especially with the shift toward serial production and new ways to scale more efficiently.   Automation was a big part of the conversation—it's not a trend anymore but a condition to keep up with demand and offer price efficiency to our customers.   The panelists also touched on how companies handle supply chain challenges and the balance between vertical integration and outsourcing.   Thanks for the discussion to moderator Noel Rimalovski, and panelists Dean Bellamy, John Borrego, Tim Shroyer, and Chris Winslett. #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats

It's new Two TVAC Tuesday! Usually, one of the biggest bottlenecks in satellite manufacturing isn't how many satellites you can put through assembly but how many you can put through testing: With these two Thermal Vacuum Chambers joining our older two, our EU headquarters will see increased production capacity and offer customers reduced costs in cases where TVAC testing would have been outsourced. Each new TVAC can house an entire batch of nanosatellites or at least 3 microsatellites at once. It's a great feeling when some of your bottlenecks disappear into thin TVAC air. 😉 #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats

Meet our Director of Engineering Operations, Karolis Senvaitis, at Silicon Valley Space Week tomorrow on a panel discussing satellite constellation manufacturing and expansion strategies that meet industry demands while optimizing customer costs. 🛰️ Time and date: October 22, 8:30 am - 9:15 am #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats #SVSW #SVSW2024

Missed our latest webinar? Here are 9 practical tips for selecting your small satellite supplier.  Would you add anything to these experts from SatComms and Earth Observation? #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats

We are back at #IAC2024. Come say hi at booth MS-D02, check out our most popular microsatellite platform, MP42, in person, learn about the various customer missions we're working on, and tell us about yours! #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats

Today at #IAC2024, our CEO, Atle Wøllo, signed the European Space Agency - ESA's Zero Debris Charter. But this isn't the start of NanoAvionics' efforts to leave no trace in space. Here are some ways by which we already keep Earth's orbit clean: ☢️ Quality Assurance and Reliability Most importantly, we are committed to building reliable hardware that we extensively test not only against Total Ionizing Dose but also Heavy Ions and Single-Event Effects under a high-energy Proton Beam to ensure our manufactured satellites don't become space junk before the end of their mission due to radiation. 🛰️ Space Debris Mitigation Even before a satellite communicates with us after launch, it must go through a sequence of antenna, solar panel, or payload structure deployments. Their release mechanisms can use burn wires, frangible bolts, and other separation means. Our job here is to choose components or strategies that do not create additional debris because even a tiny piece of loose string used to hold antennas could cause significant damage to anything it impacts when traveling at several kilometers per second. 🚀 Collision Avoidance With the ever-growing number of our customer satellites in orbit, efficient space traffic monitoring and collision avoidance is a top priority. We use the best tool we have found for collision analysis and avoidance maneuver planning, developed by Neuraspace, to ensure responsible and efficient space mission management. 🌠 Deorbiting Every satellite we build that will remain in orbit for over 5 years houses a propulsion system for collision avoidance and orbit lowering after its planned mission lifetime. This makes collision avoidance and debris tracking much easier for us and everyone else in the future. 🛰️ Advancing Space Situational Awareness Even though most of the satellites we manufacture provide services and value for people down on Earth, several missions we enabled also help track objects in orbit or help with their removal. We hope more organizations continue to join this charter and see space debris regulation as a positive development for the industry.

Always a pleasure to support upcoming space talents! Previously, a Lithuanian team from Vilnius won the "Best Use of Technology" title at the global #NASASpaceApps Challenge, so we wish the same success for this year's participants! This year, 12 teams participated, showing a growing interest in space tech. However, there could only be two winners who moved on to the global competition: 🚀 1st Place: Superdupernova with "Exoplanet Exploration," an educational video game for students and educators about exoplanets. 🚀 2nd Place: undefined with an interactive app on how astronomers use telescopes like the Habitable Worlds Observatory to search for and analyze exoplanets. Meanwhile, just 100 km away, KTU students and lecturers engineered and battled electric racing cars. While it’s not quite Star Wars, the most spaceship-like car won our hearts and some NanoAvionics swag. Congratulations to all participants and organizers, and good luck to the NASA Space Apps winners in the global finals!

This MP42H might be our smallest microsatellite bus (easily fitting on a SpaceX 1/4 plate payload adapter), yet it still packs a punch with: 🛰️ Up to 100 W of Orbit Average Power 🛰️ 460 Wh of Battery Capacity 🛰️ High maneuverability (4 - 5.5 deg/s slew rates per axis) 🛰️ And most importantly, it's avionics are immune to destructive Single Event Effects (SEE), and tested against TID, 200 MeV high energy proton beam, with critical components also tested against heavy ions. This is one of three initial satellites we are building for Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace's maritime surveillance constellation to enable rapid identification of vessels engaged in environmental crime, illegal fishing, smuggling, and other unlawful activities worldwide while supporting the search and rescue of ships in distress. The payload includes surveillance instruments developed by KONGSBERG and a navigation radar detector developed by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), but MP42H is well suited for other applications such as Earth observation or communications. Use our online satellite configurator below to see if MP42H fits your payload parameters, budget, and schedule. #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats

Perhaps the sharpest images we've seen from a 16U CubeSat come from #Horacio, the most recent satellite platform we supplied to SATLANTIS. Their iSIM-90 imager lets you see a lot from a 600km orbit in RGB and Near-Infrared: 🛰️ It is possible to accurately quantify the number of shipping containers, monitor marine traffic, illegal fishing, or other unlawful activities. 🛰️ Estimate water quality, detect pollutants or plastics' presence, and better understand aquatic ecosystems. 🛰️ Detect methane emissions, identify their origins, and quantify the pollutant greenhouse gas using differential photometry. 🛰️ Study the distribution of greenery in the near-infrared around cities like Canberra, crucial for local climate regulation and air quality. And the list goes on... Follow #Satlantis for more images captured by their three satellites using our 16U buses. #NewSpace #nanosatellites #smallsats