NanoAvionics Corp is a small satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator founded as a spin-off from Vilnius University , Lithuania in 2014.
6-660: The company specializes in production of small satellite buses and development of commercial and scientific satellite missions: mission design, hardware assembly, integration and verification, testing campaigns, standardized products (highly integrated communication, on-board computer, attitude determination and control systems, solar panels, structural elements), modular chemical propulsion systems. It markets four multipurpose satellite buses : M16P, M12P, M6P and M3P made to confirm to 16U, 12U, 6U and 3U Cubesat standards correspondingly. Also, it offers modular microsatellite bus MP42 (up to 115 kg). In 2018, AST & Science acquired
12-442: A business model for product development. Suggested new propulsion system is important for small satellite market suggesting green chemical propulsion system which makes use of an environmentally friendly propellant, and is a low cost integral plug and play design offering great economic advantages to the growing small satellite market, which presently suffers from the unavailability of a low cost, high performance propulsion solution. It
18-518: A controlling interest in NanoAvionics, and its CEO Abel Avellan became chairman of the board. In 2022, Kongsberg Gruppen acquired 77 per cent of the company. AST & Science divested all its shares, while the management of NanoAvionics retained 23 percent. The NanoAvionics core engineering team has also implemented over 150 successful commercial missions and sold their products and services to over 50 countries. NanoAvionics Corp has been awarded
24-468: A grant from EU's Horizon 2020 and ESA (among others) for developing a global IoT constellation-as-a-service aimed at IoT/M2M communication providers. NanoAvionics Corp has also been awarded a grant from EC under research and innovation program " Horizon2020 " for the project "Enabling Propulsion System for Small Satellites (EPSS) Market". The purpose of this project is to carry out a feasibility study for proposed propulsion system market potential and develop
30-495: Is expected that the new technology will improve the precision and prolong the orbit lifetime of a satellite up to 5x: from 3–4 months up till 15–18. NanoAvionics Corp, together with the National Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC), Lithuania, also carried out a project on innovative catalytic materials for miniaturized monopropellant thruster systems. Satellite bus A satellite bus (or spacecraft bus )
36-640: Is the main body and structural component of a satellite or spacecraft , in which the payload and all scientific instruments are held. Bus-derived satellites are less customized than specially-produced satellites, but have specific equipment added to meet customer requirements , for example with specialized sensors or transponders , in order to achieve a specific mission. They are commonly used for geosynchronous satellites, particularly communications satellites , but are most commonly used in spacecraft which occupy low Earth orbit missions. Some satellite bus examples include: A bus typically consists of
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