Advanced Space Awarded SBIR Phase I Project to Develop Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and Communications Relay Capabilities for NASA

Advanced Space Awarded SBIR Phase I Project to Develop Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and Communications Relay Capabilities for NASA

The feasibility study will investigate modular mission architectures that facilitate matching launch vehicles, transfer stage capabilities, primary payload, and mission destination to enable rapid mission formulation for SmallSat planetary explorers.  

WESTMINSTER, CO, 28 October 2024 NASA awarded Advanced Space a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project to develop mission architectures and requirements for customizing a low-cost rocket transfer stage that will deliver small spacecraft into nontraditional orbits and provide PNT and communications relay services for the deployed small spacecraft. The project, which will be managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will define modular mission architectures and ConOps that match launch vehicle and transfer stage capabilities to the deployment of a primary payload to its destination orbit. (more…)

Advanced Space to Extend the CAPSTONE Mission with NASA

The award prolongs the CAPSTONE™ mission. CAPSTONE™ is currently flying at the Moon and recently marked its 100th orbit in the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO).

WESTMINSTER, CO, 6 October 2024 Advanced Space’s pioneering Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) satellite completed its original 18-month mission for NASA this spring and has been awarded an extension of the mission program.  The mission extension includes a base period to continue nominal mission operations, further demonstrate Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS™) experiments, and perform feasibility analysis for high-priority experiments in support of NASA’s technology needs. The CAPSTONE™ mission has been operating at the Moon for 670+ days performing critical navigation and operations experiments in cislunar space. (more…)

Advanced Space Awarded Contract to Support  Phase 1 of the Enterprise Space Terminal Program

Advanced Space Awarded Contract to Support Phase 1 of the Enterprise Space Terminal Program

WESTMINSTER, CO, 11 September, 2024—Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, was awarded a contract from General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) in support of Phase 1 of the Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) for the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF), Space Systems Command (SSC). The EST program will increase the mission effectiveness of future Department of Defense (DoD) platforms by providing a mesh laser communication network for resilient, high-capacity communications paths for spacecraft in beyond Low Earth Orbit (bLEO) regimes at crosslink ranges up to 80,000 km. Over the seven-month contract period of performance, GA-EMS will engineer and develop an Optical Communication Terminal (OCT) design leading to a Phase 1 preliminary design review. (more…)

Advanced Space Learning Lessons Testing Software Aboard CAPSTONE™ Spacecraft

WESTMINSTER, CO, 15 August 2024 – The CAPSTONE satellite after completing its primary navigation and Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) mission continues to be an on-orbit test platform to experiment with critical technologies needed for future cislunar missions. Advanced Space is using CAPSTONE to test multiple autonomous capabilities. The first experiments performed on CAPSTONE tested the functionality of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS™) software—these efforts are still ongoing. Following CAPS, Advanced Space uplinked a SigmaZero machine learning model, which was developed for IARPA to classify anomalies with spacecraft navigation. The latest experiments Advanced Space has performed on CAPSTONE validated Advanced Space’s Neural Networks for Enhanced Planning (NNEP). NNEP is a Machine Learning (ML) application that calculates and validates optimal maneuvers without humans in the loop. It’s one of the key applications in Advanced Space’s Autopilot suite of on-orbit tools to enable autonomous operations. (more…)

Advanced Space Awarded Contract to Support  Phase 1 of the Enterprise Space Terminal Program

Advanced Space Selected for Two NASA SBIR Phase II Awards

WESTMINSTER, CO, 13 June 2024 — Advanced Space LLC., a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce that NASA has selected two of our Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects to proceed to Phase II for further development.  “We are grateful for these selections as we appreciate the trust NASA continues to place in our work pushing the state of the art for critical technologies that will enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space,” said Advanced Space CEO Bradley Cheetham. “These two technologies will make missions more robust and resilient through onboard autonomy and will increase the scale with which important spaceflight safety related operations can be conducted.”   (more…)

Advanced Space Hires Charlie Crouse as Business Development & Sales Lead 

Advanced Space Hires Charlie Crouse as Business Development & Sales Lead 

WESTMINSTER, CO, 30 May 2024 Advanced Space, LLC, a leading space technology solutions company, announces Charlie Crouse has been hired to be the Lead of Business Development and Sales. With a distinguished career in military intelligence operations and the aerospace industry, Charlie brings a wealth of experience and strategic vision to the team.  (more…)

CAPSTONE™ Mission Accomplished and More Left to Go!

CAPSTONE™ Mission Accomplished and More Left to Go!

From completing the mission to exceeding expectations, our spacecraft flew its 18-month mission at the Moon and will continue flying.

WESTMINSTER, CO, 29 May 2024 – A project that began as a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project celebrated an important milestone this month: Advanced Space’s pioneering Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) satellite completed its original 18-month mission for NASA. (more…)

CAPSTONE™ Mission Accomplished and More Left to Go!

First Commercial Lunar Orbiter Successfully Completed All Operational Objectives – CAPSTONE™ Continues Moon Operations to Inform Future Missions

Mission to continue testing near-lunar communication and navigation technologies along with new software tools.

WESTMINSTER, CO, 29 May 2024 Advanced Space’s pioneering commercial satellite continues to operate beyond its expected 18-month contracted mission, which was originally supposed to end this month. Begun with a mission to demonstrate the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS™) (more…)

Advanced Space Hires Aaron Frost as Director of People 

Advanced Space Hires Aaron Frost as Director of People 

WESTMINSTER, CO, 21 May 2024 – Advanced Space, LLC, a leading space technology solutions company, welcomes Aaron Frost as their first Director of People. Aaron will be responsible for the innovative talent acquisition and team member success processes, ensuring that Advanced Space continues to attract and retain the industry’s top talent. Aaron brings over 15 years of strategic human resources, talent acquisition, and leadership development experience to his new role. (more…)

Interview—Anthony Zara, Advanced Space Astrodynamics and Satellite Navigation Engineer

Interview—Anthony Zara, Advanced Space Astrodynamics and Satellite Navigation Engineer

What is the most interesting part of your current project?

I would be hard-pressed to say anything other than the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) since that has been where I have focused the majority of my time and effort at Advanced Space. This technology has the opportunity to revolutionize how navigation at the Moon and beyond works for the future of space exploration by reducing navigation and communication burdens on Earth ground stations with its decentralized and cooperative approach. Developing a totally novel technology is always an interesting project; the fact that we currently have CAPSTONE up there at the Moon gathering real data in support of this technology makes it an engineer’s dream. (more…)

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