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What’s Under Development at SFL Missions? Commercial and Operational Satellites
Read more: What’s Under Development at SFL Missions? Commercial and Operational SatellitesIn addition to satellites being developed for novel and proof-of-concept missions, SFL Missions is working on many spacecraft that will become key additions to operational and commercial constellations already in orbit. For commercial deployment, we are developing two new greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites for GHGSat at our Toronto facility and three radio frequency geolocation Clusters…
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Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) Students Place First and Second in Small Satellite Conference Student Competition
Read more: Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) Students Place First and Second in Small Satellite Conference Student CompetitionCongratulations to Benjamin Nero and Saksham Jain for placing First and Second respectively in the 2025 Small Satellite Conference Student Competition. Nero and Jain worked on their papers and submitted them to the competition earlier this year while completing their graduate degrees at the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL). Both are now employed at SFL Missions,…
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Autonomous Formation Flying Enables Multi-Satellite Applications
Read more: Autonomous Formation Flying Enables Multi-Satellite ApplicationsBy Dr. Robert E. Zee More than ten years ago, SFL became the first microspace developer to develop and integrate the hardware systems and software algorithms that make autonomous formation flying a reality for micro- and nanosatellites at costs low enough to support commercial applications. In today’s blog, I take a look at the specific…
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Critical Microspace Technologies for Successful Earth Observation
Read more: Critical Microspace Technologies for Successful Earth ObservationWe are proud to have played major roles in creating and refining many microspace capabilities that make operational use of smaller satellites a reality – especially those enabling small satellite remote sensing. If your organization is considering initiating an Earth observation mission, these are the critical capabilities required for your nano-, micro-, small- or CubeSat…
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Why Small Satellites and the ‘Microspace’ Approach are Keys to Developing a National Earth Observation Program
Read more: Why Small Satellites and the ‘Microspace’ Approach are Keys to Developing a National Earth Observation ProgramIn the previous blog, we discussed the emerging trend of small countries developing their own Earth observation programs, with Slovenia and its NEMO-HD microsatellite built by Space Flight Laboratory being the most recent example. The catalyst for this trend is simple
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Microspace Technology Enables All Countries to Reap the Benefits of National Earth Observation Programs
Read more: Microspace Technology Enables All Countries to Reap the Benefits of National Earth Observation ProgramsThe September 2020 launch of the NEMO-HD microsatellite built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) added Slovenia to the growing list of relatively small countries that have developed their own national Earth observation programs.
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Quality is Not Synonymous with Standards
Read more: Quality is Not Synonymous with StandardsEveryone in the aerospace industry agrees that quality is critical. And standards are equally important in those situations where they help maintain and ensure satellite quality. But standards should never be a replacement for quality. This is a key area where traditional Big Space differs from Microspace.
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Systems Engineering vs the CubeSat Kit
Read more: Systems Engineering vs the CubeSat KitIn an earlier blog about disruptive strategies for developing a new space-based business, I made the case for getting the demonstration satellite into orbit quickly with capabilities that are sufficient to prove the technology. I argued against the alternative of spending excessive time and money to build a demonstration mission with the full functionality and…
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Disruptive vs Operational Mission Strategies
Read more: Disruptive vs Operational Mission StrategiesOver the past two decades, space venturing companies have lived or died based on whether they chose the right business strategy at the right time.