At Aspect Aerospace, we are a dedicated team of satellite designers and builders with flight heritage. Rather than just shrinking a CubeSat into a smaller CubeSat, we've decided to rewrite the script.

 

We're designing, building, and launching the "Single-Board Satellite" -- the entire satellite is a single printed circuit board, able to be mass produced in any PCB assembly house in the US. Each satellite will be 10cm x 10cm to fit inside a CubeSat-sized deployer, with the option to be larger for specialized scenarios. Our goal is to leverage this breakthrough tech to create a space industry in Mobile, Alabama.

 

Leveraging the single-board satellite architecture, we're bringing to market a "constellation in-a-box" -- a whole constellation of 20-100 satellites, deployed from a single CubeSat, for less than the cost of a single CubeSat. Each satellite would cost hundreds of dollars, rather than traditional hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

 

With each satellite acting as a node in a constellation, we can do some revolutionary things, each constellation deployed in a single launch -- for instance:

 

     - Distributed optics, with each satellite hosting a camera, allowing us to do extremely fast revisits, image stacking, 3d stereo optics, etc. 

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     - Deployable mesh networks: a large / government-owned and operated satellite could host a canister of these satellites, ready to go, in the event of adversarial attack or disrupted radio communications. Think of it as a cell network on demand.

 

     - Aggregate data collection: dispense a constellation into a space weather storm or solar event to capture data with extreme accuracy. We've licensed tech from a university that can measure both space weather and neutral particle density to sub-meter resolution, allowing us to generate extremely accurate ionosphere maps, for instance. This single-board platform lets us test experimental tech, validate it, license it for market, etc. very rapidly.  

 

     - Batch testing in space: the "killer app" for the single board satellite is rapid prototyping and batch testing in space. We can host a component to test, deploy them in-situ across 100 satellites at a lower price point than on-ground testing, and generate 100 hours of space qualification time per real-world hour. You could get 73,000 hours of space qual time in one month, for cheaper than on-ground testing, with a faster turnaround time as these things are mass produced, ready to go.

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