Fleet Space is excited to be progressing to workshop stage to demonstrate the capability of Space Machines Company (SMC)’s Orbital Transfer Vehicle, Optimus, to assist us in deploying a round of nanosatellites at the end of 2022/beginning of 2023. Optimus will provide fast, precise and reliable access to different orbits, acting as a “last-mile” cargo transport service in-space.
SMC- also located in Adelaide- is a Transportation and logistics service that supports missions to progress from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Deep Space- a last-mile cargo transport service. This transportation network includes transporters, servicing and fuelling assets that are cost-effective and available on-demand, and will support space missions and satellite deployments that are delivered to space on ride-share or dedicated flights.
Fleet Space has committed to an Optimus Capability Demo through a Hosted Payload flight (Optimus 2) for a Fleet payload to be launched in late 2022 or early 2023. Both power and telemetry for the payload will be included for the course of the mission. If this trial is successful, Fleet will explore and scope Optimus Capability Missions that could deploy future Fleet assets into the required constellation orbits and planes.
The signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will allow further collaboration between Space Machines Company and Fleet Space, with the aim of testing, demonstrating and deploying space technologies, with the first mission analysing the suitability to deliver future Fleet satellites to their orbit.
Partnering with SMC will give us the option to speed up the build time of our space infrastructure, meaning our low-cost satellite-based communication system for Industrial IoT will be available to our customers sooner.
About Fleet Space
Fleet Space is on track to create a digital nervous system that will connect every single device on our planet using LoRaWAN, ushering in the fourth industrial revolution. They are deploying Smart Industrial IoT (IIoT) Networks for their customers, enabling fully digital views of utility’s rurally dispersed critical infrastructure, providing an affordable and scalable network able to gather data from every asset, no matter its location.
Pioneering Australian Space
Fleet Space made history by launching Australia’s first four commercial nanosatellites in November 2018. Over the course of three weeks, Proxima 1 & 2 and Centauri 1 & 2 were launched into Low Earth Orbit. Fleet is continuing its work on the Centauri Program, having launched its fifth and sixth satellites in 2021, and the next batch of satellites in 2022.
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