SFL Demonstrates Cost-Effective Deorbiting of Retired Satellite with CanX-7 Drag Sail Technology
CASE STUDY: DRAG SAIL DEORBITING CanX-7 OVERVIEW A drag sail designed by SFL safely deorbited a demonstration nanosatellite in 2022 – less than five years after completion of the spacecraft’s primary mission. That’s roughly 178 years before the satellite would have deorbited without the drag sail and well within the 25-year deorbiting target recommended for… Read more ...
SFL’s Pioneering Small Satellite Attitude Control Technology Enabled GHGSat’s Commercial Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Constellation Mission
CASE STUDY: GREENHOUSE GAS MONITORING GHGSat OVERVIEW A NewSpace startup in Montreal called GHGSat had a vision for a commercial business – using satellites to detect and measure greenhouse gas emissions from industrial and other sources anywhere on Earth. The challenge, however, was significant. Satellites small enough to satisfy commercial budget constraints over 10 years… Read more ...
Canada Enhances Arctic Situational Awareness with ‘Gray Jay’ Microsatellite Cluster Developed by SFL
CASE STUDY: ARCTIC SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Gray Jay OVERVIEW Canada has strengthened its sovereignty and enhanced situational awareness in the Arctic with a microsatellite demonstration mission developed by SFL under tight budget constraints. The Gray Jay constellation of three 30-kg formation-flying satellites launched on January 14, 2025. CHALLENGE SFL developed the Gray Jay mission for Defence… Read more ...
Flex Production Enables NewSpace Companies to Reduce Satellite Manufacturing Costs While Leveraging SFL Quality and Technological Edge
CASE STUDY: RF GEOLOCATION & FLEX PRODUCTION HawkEye 360 OVERVIEW The April 2023 launch of three HawkEye 360 radio frequency (RF) geolocation microsatellites was the seventh spacecraft cluster launched by the commercial U.S. company and the first developed under the SFL Flex Production Program. This flexible satellite development plan was created by SFL to accommodate… Read more ...
Agile Microsatellite Developed by SFL Positions Slovenia as Leader in River Basin Modeling
CASE STUDY: EARTH MONITORING NEMO-HD OVERVIEW A versatile microsatellite the size of a suitcase and with a price tag a fraction of a traditional Earth observation satellite has helped establish Slovenia among the worldwide leaders in mapping and modeling river basins. SFL developed the NEMO-HD microsatellite for the Slovenian Centre for Excellence in Space Sciences… Read more ...