Bright Ascension Ltd. has confirmed that another three of the company’s flight software deployments were launched aboard the SpaceX Transporter 8 mission on June 12, 2023, taking the company’s current total to 44 spacecraft on-orbit.
Bright Ascension reached this milestone as firm is gearing up to launch their end to end suite of space software products later in the year. The three launched spacecraft, powered by Bright Ascension’s software, were designed and built by AAC Clyde Space in Glasgow and are follow on missions to previously deployed satellites.
The EPIC HYPER 2 spacecraft, the second of three, is expected to deliver hyperspectral imaging data exclusively to Wyvern Inc., a Canadian EO company, under a Space Data as a Service (SDaaS) agreement.
The second of the Kelpie satellites, also owned by AAC Clyde Space and operated under an SDaaS agreement, will deliver data to ORBCOMM Inc., a global provider of IoT solutions.
The third spacecraft to be powered by Bright Ascension software is undisclosed.
The company is developing an innovative end to end suite of highly integrated space software products, that will cover the entire mission development and management process from design, engineering, testing, through to operations and data or service delivery. The aim is to make commercial space software significantly more accessible and easier to use for a large number of companies, regardless of whether they operate in the upstream or downstream sectors of the market.
“The upcoming product launch is extremely important to us, but it is equally important to continue building our flight heritage and demonstrable understanding of space software development processes and challenges. There are not many companies in the New Space sector that have such profound knowledge and competence in optimizing onboard software to simplify, automate and integrate software services on the ground and across the entire value chain. We have demonstrated our success over the past 11 years in space and in the context of 44 missions, which gives us undeniable credibility and in-depth expertise to take our technology further and tackle the unresolved market needs in space software development, management and operation.” — Peter Mendham, CEO, Bright Ascension