https://spacewatch.global/tag/nanoavionics/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:15:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/nanoavionics/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/02/deep-space-energy-secures-pre-seed-funding-to-develop-and-commercialize-radio-isotope-power-generator/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=71146 Deep Space Energy has closed its pre-seed round, raising €350K, while also securing additional €580K in public contracts and grants by the European Space Agency (ESA), NATO DIANA, and the Latvian government, for a total of €930K. The funding will go towards the further development and commercialization of the company's novel radioisotopic generator, thereby strengthening the European sovereign space and defense industry and powering lunar surface exploration.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/08/spacewatchgl-opinion-who-are-europes-next-space-unicorns-meet-10-companies-building-europes-space-future/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=67291
Written by Ieva Sipola
As global space policy shifts, Europe faces a unique opportunity to build its own future in space. This moment has become a catalyst for the continent's most ambitious scale-ups and aspiring unicorns, who are ready to shape a more independent and resilient space sector. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/03/nanoavionics-partners-neuraspace-on-space-traffic-management/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:00:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=54261 Kongsberg NanoAvionics ("NanoAvionics") has selected Neuraspace’s space traffic management (STM) solution, based on artificial intelligence, for its own end-to-end small satellite mission services. As a result, NanoAvionics will make Neuraspace’s STM system for collision analysis, maneuver planning, and improving space sustainability part of its LEOP (launch and early orbit phase) and operations package.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/03/startical-selects-nanoavionics-and-gomspace-for-space-tests/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:00:28 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=54213 Startical has selected NanoAvionics and GomSpace satellites to carry out the concept trials of its constellation, which will take air traffic control to space. The mission will take place after the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has given the green light to the use of aeronautical communications from space. As a result, the company will test the communication and surveillance systems of its future constellation of over 270 satellites set to provide air traffic services from space.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/08/speqtral-selects-kongsberg-nanoavionics-and-mbryonics/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50629 SpeQtral, a leading quantum communication technology company, has chosen Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) as the satellite bus provider for its upcoming SpeQtral-1 mission. Furthermore, the mission also has a second partner in Mbryonics, producing the satellite’s optical terminal. Using the technical expertise of NanoAvionics as a leading smallsat bus manufacturer and mission integrator and Mbryonics’s state-of-the-art optical terminal hardware, SpeQtral-1 aims to serve as a pathfinder commercial demonstrator, defining future quantum key distribution (QKD) services.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/12/absolut-sensing-selects-nanoavionics-for-demonstration-satellite/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 07:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45396 Absolut Sensing, a subsidiary of the Absolut Group specializing in the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build its demonstration satellite dubbed “GEN1” after a rigorous selection process. Under the mission agreement, NanoAvionics will provide its 16U nanosatellite bus, payload integration services, a satellite testing campaign, launch services, and satellite operations.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/12/onera-acquires-satellite-platforms-from-nanoavionics/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:00:07 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45196 French aerospace lab ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales) has signed a contract with NanoAvionics, a space mission integrator and satellite manufacturer, for the procurement of two 8U and 6U nanosat platforms, dedicated to ONERA 's FlyLab mission. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/07/kongsberg-to-acquire-smallsat-manufacturer-nanoavionics/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:00:08 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=41963 Norwegian technology corporation Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Kongsberg), has entered into an agreement to acquire Lithuanian smallsat bus manufacturer and mission integrator, NanoAvionics, Kongsberg said. The planned acquisition will add products and technology for manufacturing small satellites to the company’s portfolio.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/06/nanoavionics-takes-first-ever-4k-resolution-full-satellite-selfie-in-space/ Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:00:21 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=41859 Smallsat bus manufacturer NanoAvionics, took the first ever 4K resolution full satellite selfie in space with an immersive view of Earth with the help of an off-the-shelf consumer camera mounted on a selfie stick, the company said. A GoPro Hero 7 took 12-megapixel photos and 4K video clips of the MP42 microsatellite 550 km above the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/05/kongsberg-defence-aerospace-orders-satellites-from-nanoavionics/ Thu, 19 May 2022 07:00:33 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=41025 Norwegian Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has placed an order for three microsatellites with Lithuanian mission integrator NanoAvionics for a space-based maritime surveillance mission covering the North Sea area, Kongsberg said. The satellites will be based on NanoAvionics’s MP42 microsatellite bus.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/02/turion-space-and-nanoavionics-on-reconnaissance-mission/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 07:00:26 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38911 Turion Space has selected NanoAvionics’ small satellite bus MP42 as the basis for its ‘Droid-1’ spacecraft. Droid-1 is designed for reconnaissance missions in low Earth orbit (LEO) and is to launch in Q1 2023. The satellite will be capable of taking extremely accurate measurements of space objects using its onboard sensors.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/unio-consortium-wins-feasibility-study-for-an-independent-european-satellite-network/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:00:40 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37927 UN:IO consortium members will conduct a feasibility study to create a sovereign communications network for Europe by 2025, the company announced. The European Commission funded the project with €1.4M. The consortium comprises 14 NewSpace companies led by satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace, launch provider Isar Aerospace and laser specialist Mynaric.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/10/nasa-selects-rocket-lab-to-launch-its-solar-sail-system/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 06:00:38 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=36321 Rocket Lab USA announced it has been selected to launch NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System satellite, (ACS3), on an Electron rocket. The ACS3 technology relies on a combination of materials with different properties. Lightweight booms will deploy from a 12U CubeSat designed and built by NanoAvionics of Columbia, to support a solar sail.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/05/nanoavionics-expands-its-small-satellite-bus-production/ Tue, 25 May 2021 06:00:55 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=33001&preview=true&preview_id=33001 NanoAvionics expands its U.S. manufacturing facilities and aims at taking “30 percent of the US market share in nano-/microsatellite manufacturing and mission provision services”, the company said. NanoAvionics existing facility Columbia will be used to produce “high-quantities of nano- and microsatellite buses, for both single and constellation missions”.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/05/oq-and-nanoavionics-extend-nanosat-cooperation-to-tiger-2/ Tue, 11 May 2021 06:00:21 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=32652&preview=true&preview_id=32652 The Lithuanian smallsat bus manufacturer and mission integrator NanoAvionics partners with the IoT startup OQ Technology to build, integrate and operate a nanosatellite for the 5G IoT mission named Tiger-2. The satellite is scheduled to be launched this year, the companies said.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/04/oq-selects-nanoavionics-for-macsat-mission/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 06:00:26 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=31713&preview=true&preview_id=31713 OQ selects NanoAvionics for MACSAT mission]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/07/exolaunch-and-nanoavionics-sign-two-launch-agreements-for-spacexs-rideshare-missions/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 05:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=24009 Exolaunch, a rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, signed launch agreements with NanoAvionics, a nano-satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, to launch two 6U nano-satellites aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rideshare missions. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/nanoavionics-to-build-satellites-for-nasa-funded-aero-vista-mission/ Tue, 12 May 2020 05:00:03 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22410 NanoAvionics has received a contract to build two nanosatellites for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AERO-VISTA mission team at NanoAvionics’ recently-opened manufacturing facility in Columbia, Illinois, USA.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/nanoavionics-selected-for-norwegian-dutch-strategic-research-mission-for-radar-signals/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:00:08 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21794 This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/nanoavionics-and-mexican-space-agency-introduce-a-nanosatellite-pilot-project-for-future-space-missions/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:00:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21765 Nanosatellite manufacturer and mission integrator NanoAvionics, together with the Mexican Space Agency (AEM) and students from the Polytechnic University of Atlacomulco will develop the first nanosatellite for the State of Mexico, (one of most important states of the country), the AtlaCom-1. ]]>