Spacecraft | Faraday-1 |
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Spacecraft type | CubeSat |
Units or mass | 6U |
Organization | In-Space Missions |
Institution | Company |
Entity type | Commercial |
Nation (HQ) | UK |
Nation (AIT) | ? |
Partners | Bright Ascension, GomSpace, Rocket Lab, Kongsberg Satellite Services AS, ISISpace, Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) |
Costs | £4.9 million for this and future validation missions. |
Oneliner |
Hosted payload opportunities for early service and technology demonstration. |
Description |
Faraday Phoenix has been developed in less than 8 months and is flying payloads for 6 customers including Airbus, Lacuna, SatixFy and Aeternum as well In-Space’s own Babel payload. The Babel payload is In-Space’s first incarnation of a future digital, uploadable payload offering within the Faraday service. This first generation is a n-space.co.uk/in%e2%80%90space-missions-limited-announce-upcoming-launch-of-faraday-phoenix/">[4] [5] |
Related Spacecraft
Satellite | Status | Rocket | Date | Orbit |
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Faraday-1 | Launch failure | Electron | 2020-07-04 | Launch failure |
Faraday-1b (Faraday Phoenix) | Operational? (Initial contact made according to official Twitter post, but object was identified months later) | Falcon 9, (Transporter-2), (Spaceflight Sherpa), (Sherpa-LTE1) | 2021-06-30 | 525 km, 97.5 deg |
Faraday-1c | cancelled? (Seems to have switched to microsatellite platforms for hosted payloads) | cancelled | x_cancelled | cancelled |
Faraday-1d | cancelled? as focus is on microsatellites?) | cancelled | x_cancelled | cancelled |
Last modified: 2023-06-03