SkySat-1 is arguably the highest performance micro-satellite ever built. Since its launch 3 months ago, it has delivered terabytes of spectacular sub-meter imagery and video - data of incredible business value - at a cost more than an order of magnitude less than comparable existing systems.
We are regularly asked how this is possible and it boils down to two pieces:
A small, tightly integrated team of incredible hardware and software engineers with diverse industry experience
A unique space system design approach and philosophy
Feb. 18 in Kiev - History seen from the sky
Small is the new Big
Satellite Performance Frontier
The cost of satellite data Space assets are traditionally:Extremely Valuable
Extremely Expensive
Extremely Risky
They are valuable ( and probably always will be) because satellites are unique in type, quantity and global nature of data and services they can provide.They are expensive and risky because getting to space and doing interesting things there is hard.
Alphasat - a lot of eggs (and capital!!) in one basket
“Small-Sats” (micro-, nano-, pico-satelites, etc) are a reaction to the enormous expense of traditional
To move off the frontier, a system must both capture data of high enough quality (resolution) to show economic activity and be cost-effective enough to deploy in large numbers (timeliness).
So why Small-Sats again?
The commercial micro-electronics revolution and Moore’s law have pushed the green line up disproportionality at the smaller end of the spacecraft scale while economics of launch, capital financing and risk aversion in aerospace have pushed the cost up sharply at the larger end. Over the last 20 years, a “bubble of opportunity” has arisen in the nano- and micro-satellite scales.The answer came by combining tightly integrated system architecture, modularity in both hardware and software, techniques that allow us to leverage the incredible performance of modern commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components in space and the best engineering team in the industry.
SkySat-1 "Off the Curve"
Stay tuned to Part II where we will discuss our unique design philosophy and how it enables the Skybox space and data platform. In Part III we discuss what we look for in engineers and how we built our exceptional team and in Part IV we will elaborate on the way we traded capability vs. size and why we think the SkySat platform is right in the sweet-spot.
Posted by Jonny Dyer, Chief Engineer
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