Kongsberg NanoAvionics is reshaping the space economy with its standardized small satellite platforms.
The company offers efficient, cost-effective satellite products and services that help organizations launch their space missions swiftly.
In this article we discuss their growth over the last 12 months, look ahead to the company’s plans and ambitions in 2024, and share further information about their portfolio.
Contents
- Kongsberg NanoAvionics’ growth in 2023
- Kongsberg NanoAvionics’ ambitions for 2024
- Kongsberg NanoAvionics’ portfolio
- Further reading
Kongsberg NanoAvionics in 2023
We asked NanoAvionics what the company’s biggest wins in 2023 were. They replied with the following information:
2023 was a great year for Kongsberg NanoAvionics. During it we achieved the following milestones:
🚀 Took part in 5 orbital launches
🛰️ Saw 21 satellites successfully launched or delivered to customers, including our heaviest ESPA-class MP42 microsatellite to date, weighing over 120 kg
🛰️ Worked on 73 satellites in total during the year
✍️ Signed contracts with over 10 new satellite mission customers and with more repeating ones
💼 Diversified our mission portfolio with new projects on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), and other exciting customer missions
🌍 Downloaded terabytes of satellite data for our customers and saw 42% of our customer satellites contributing to sustainability efforts
Kongsberg NanoAvionics in 2024
NanoAvionics also shared the company’s strategic aims and ambitions for this year:
From a mission perspective, we’ve been building satellites for a significant number of organizations aiming to launch constellations. In fact, if we looked into publicly available data, NanoAvionics is leading the satellite manufacturer market by launching the most nanosatellites to its customers in the past 5 years comparing to any other supplier.
Some of those organizations have really progressed technologically and financially during their precursor missions and we are anticipating moving to the next phase together with them and kick off serial manufacturing for their programs.
Negotiations include constellations of up to 100 satellites to be built within 3-5 years. These constellations are customers worldwide, not just in the U.S. and Europe. Some are our existing customers, and others are new, yet undisclosed or classified customers.
From a product perspective, we are working towards defining the new mission performance and reliability standard in New Space that looks beyond launch success to evolve tech capabilities that address mission longevity, performance, and reliability. Working closely with emerging commercial customers and long-standing traditional space players means our product and project assurance practices strike a balance between the Old Space reliability requirements and New Space agility and cost-effectiveness.
To deliver top-quality products and services at accelerated timelines, we have taken the learnings from our work with a very diverse set of satellite applications over the past decade and aim to offer the widest range of standard satellite buses that could meet the requirements of up to 80% of our customer missions straight off the shelf. We’ll introduce these products in 2024 H1.
NanoAvionics’ portfolio
This section includes a variety of Kongsberg NanoAvionics’ products available on the global market today. Click on the links to open pages with more detail on each system.
You can then make requests for quotes, documents, or further information, and we’ll handle these for you (find out more about how this simple process works on this page). You can also submit an open tender here and our expert procurement team will get back to you ASAP.
The Kongsberg NanoAvionics MP42H is a Microsatellite bus designed for space applications. It is a versatile system and has been optimized for high data throughput and complex communications missions and services. It is also suitable for research projects, emergency communications, and remote sensing services, and can be adapted to such applications with minimal reconfiguration.
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The Kongsberg NanoAvionics M16P is a 16U nanosatellite bus designed for NewSpace applications. It is designed to provide a pre-integrated and pre-qualified platform that is fully tested electrically, functionally, and mechanically for a faster and simpler setup. NanoAvionics offers three M16P nanosatellite standard performance configurations – Light, Mid, and Max – providing options that best match customers’ payload, mission objectives, and budget.
The Kongsberg NanoAvionics M6P is a 6U nanosatellite bus designed for NewSpace applications. The M6P’s onboard systems are flight-proven and are pre-configured, to simplify and speed up integration. This allows customers to focus more time and effort on higher-level mission tasks, such as optimizing payload performance or testing new services.
The Kongsberg NanoAvionics M8P is an 8U nanosatellite bus designed for NewSpace applications. It is designed to support NewSpace technologies and has been specifically designed for optimum performance in demanding commercial settings. The M8P can provide very similar average orbit power to a 16U nanosatellite, and improve mission capabilities and redundancy at only marginally increased production and launch costs compared to the M6P.
The Kongsberg NanoAvionics MP42D is a Microsatellite bus designed for space applications. The MP42D comes equipped with a propulsion system to enable the satellite to perform high-impulse maneuvers such as orbital deployment and maintenance, precision flying, orbit synchronization, and atmospheric drag compensation.
The Kongsberg NanoAvionics MP42H is a satellite bus designed for Microsatellite missions. It is the smallest and lightest microsatellite bus and comes with an 8″ or 15″ ESPA-class separation ring for deployment in orbit.NanoAvionics offers three MP42H microsatellite standard performance configurations for 8″ and 15″ versions – Light, Mid, and Max – providing options that best match customers’ payload, mission objectives, and budget.
Further reading
The links below will take you to other satsearch resources where you can learn more about some of the topics mentioned on this page:
- Agile manufacturing in the NewSpace sector – with NanoAvionics [PODCAST]
- Spotlight: company profile of NanoAvionics, a multinational nanosatellite mission integrator
- Satellite platform selection: choosing the right size for your CubeSat or small satellite mission
- Microsatellite platforms and buses on the global market
- A guide to NewSpace microsatellites – exploring 100-400 kg class platforms [WEBINAR]
- A brief introduction to the space supply chain
- How satsearch helps space companies grow
- Procurement advice from space industry experts