Terran Orbital Integrates Fleet Space, GeoOptics, and NASA Satellites Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Prior to Transporter-5 Launch
May 25 2022 - 10:14AM
Business Wire
The six Terran Orbital designed and built satellites
represent four missions and three customers
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in
satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States aerospace
and defense industry, today announced the successful integration of
six Terran Orbital designed and built satellites aboard the SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket prior to the Transporter-5 launch. The 57-minute
launch window opens today, Wednesday, May 25 at 2:27 p.m. ET. Click
here to view the launch. Satellite descriptions below.
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The CPOD, PTD-3, CENTAURI-5, and CICERO-2
satellites are fully integrated and ready to launch on SpaceX
Falcon 9 in support of the Transporter-5 mission (Photo: Terran
Orbital Corporation)
NASA CubeSat Proximity Operations Demonstration (CPOD)
The CPOD project is being led by Terran Orbital with funding from
NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program within NASA’s Space
Technology Mission Directorate. The technology demonstration
mission will validate the technologies needed to support
rendezvous, proximity operations, docking (RPOD), servicing, and
formation flight by utilizing a pair of identical 3-unit (3U)
CubeSats – leveraging their inherently lower vehicle and launch
costs.
NASA Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) PTD-3
is a 6-unit (6U) CubeSat built and integrated by Terran Orbital to
host and support launch and on-orbit operations of the TeraByte
InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload funded by NASA’s Space
Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program and developed by MIT
Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL). The TBIRD mission is the second
mission in the PTD series funded by the Small Spacecraft Technology
program in NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate. The mission
will demonstrate a space-to-ground data transfer capability at
orders of magnitude faster than previously demonstrated
technologies. This technology could open doors to large volume data
communications and data accessibility for advanced space
exploration— delivering multiple terabytes of data per day to a
single ground station.
Fleet Space CENTAURI-5 The CENTAURI-5 spacecraft is part
of a constellation commissioned by Fleet Space Technologies to
deliver global connectivity solutions specifically designed for the
energy, exploration, and resource industries. Tyvak International,
a Terran Orbital Corporation, designed and developed the
spacecraft. Fleet Space is providing the payload that consists of
the world’s first 3D printed all-metal patch antenna array combined
with Digital Beamforming in S-Band frequency.
GeoOptics CICERO-2 Vehicle 1 and Vehicle 2 GeoOptics
Vehicles 1 and 2 are the first phase of a next generation satellite
constellation – CICERO-2 – to form a unified Earth observatory
allowing governments, industry, and individual stakeholders to
monitor and prepare for the many impacts of climate change. These
6U XXL size spacecraft were designed and developed by Terran
Orbital's international arm, Tyvak International, in Torino, Italy.
GeoOptics's payload – Cion – is a best-in-class Global Navigation
Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) system and is a
miniaturized version of the NASA/JPL developed "TriG" payload.
“Terran Orbital designs, builds, and integrates satellite
solutions that help solve some of the world’s most complex
problems,” said Terran Orbital Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief
Executive Officer Marc Bell. “CPOD, PTD-3, CENTAURI-5, and the
CICERO-2 vehicles feature game-changing technologies that will
greatly benefit the ways we measure and observe activity on Earth.
Communicating this data in support of future mission capabilities
will ultimately save and improve lives. We look forward to
fostering our partnerships with NASA, GeoOptics, Fleet Space, MIT
Lincoln Laboratories, and SpaceX as we continue to deliver
groundbreaking and life-changing missions.”
About Terran Orbital Terran Orbital is a leading
manufacturer of small satellites primarily serving the United
States aerospace and defense industry. Terran Orbital provides
end-to-end satellite solutions by combining satellite design,
production, launch planning, mission operations, and in-orbit
support to meet the needs of the most demanding military, civil,
and commercial customers. Learn more at www.terranorbital.com.
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