SpaceQuest
Spacecraft components and engineering company specializing in small satellite operations.
SpaceQuest, also known as SpaceQuest, Ltd., is a spacecraft components and engineering company based in Fairfax, Virginia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AAC Clyde Space and focuses on the operations of small satellites, designing, developing, constructing, launching, and operating microsatellites and spacecraft components. The company qualifies its components for use in space by flying them on its own satellites and operates a fleet of low Earth orbiting satellites used for remote monitoring and tracking the location and status of large vessels at sea.
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 1994
- Headquarters
- Fairfax, Virginia, USA
- Industry
- spacecraft
- engineering
- computer hardware
- consulting ground systems
- Products
- spacecraft and spacecraft components
- Parent
- AAC Clyde Space
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Background
SpaceQuest, Ltd. was established as a company focused on small satellite technology, operating from Fairfax, Virginia. It built a reputation by flying its own components on its own satellites to qualify them for space use, a practice that set it apart from many component suppliers. The company also maintained a fleet of low Earth orbiting satellites for remote monitoring and maritime vessel tracking.
Among its projects were FalconSAT 3 and 5, satellites developed by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the AprizeSat series of commercial communications satellites. SpaceQuest also contributed to amateur radio satellite AO-51 and provided satellites for Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis I and Genesis II inflatable space habitats. In December 2018, the company launched Thea and Brio, a pair of 3U cubesats hosting experimental payloads for commercial customers on Spaceflight's SSO-A mission.
In October 2020, AAC Clyde Space announced an agreement to acquire all shares in SpaceQuest Ltd., with the acquisition completed in December 2020.
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