NOVEMBER 2024AEROSPACEDEFENSEREVIEW.COM192) increased requirements for reliability asked of suppliers; 3) standardization of satellite buses. When implementing these steps, one achieves a stronger relationship with the supply chain, leading to shorter lead times and reduced costs in non-recurring engineering hours.The geopolitical situation of today has resulted in the need for a responsive space industry with the ability to rapidly deliver reliable systems serving demanding applications. KDA is part of a European Defence Fund project called REACTS, where the goal is to enable the replacement of satellites in orbit within 72 hours. This level of ambition calls for a space industry capable of offering pre-qualified satellite buses for fast payload integration, modular designs, standardised architectures, plug-and-play interfaces and constellation-optimized production lines, enabling high-volume batches and a redundant supply chain.With responsive space as a baseline, space-based missile early warning and persistent ISR services can be brought forward, as well as search-and-rescue and critical environmental monitoring services to ensure a sustainable and secure planet for our next generation. WITH NEW SPACE 3.0 WE ARE SETTING A NEW PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR SMALL SATELLITES, LOOKING BEYOND LAUNCH SUCCESS AND EVOLVING TECH CAPABILITIES TO ADDRESS MISSION LONGEVITY, AVAILABILITY AND RELIABILITYrooted in what our customers ask of us in the market and our over 40 years of legacy in developing critical space systems.KDA is a system provider and our merging with NanoAvionics allowed us to better assess a user's need for information and translate this to which sensor suite and platform is best fit for purpose, which mission concept tailors their operational needs and latency requirements and offering a secure handling of the entire process, including launch and operations.Our heritage from Legacy Space means we have a very strong background in developing long-lifetime, high-reliability and availability satellite systems. Now we observe that the typical legacy space domain is moving towards the New Space domain in terms of a need for providing continuously more cost-efficient solutions, translating to the accepted use of more Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) components, relieving some of the reliability, redundancy and verification requirements to get a faster-time-to-market solution to answer commercial needs. Typically, legacy space meant building a unique configuration and design for a one-off project related to a particular set of user needs; however, today we see a shift in the market towards more standardization of platforms and payloads (shifting the configurability to in-orbit instead) to enable shorter lead times and affordable projects. Similarly, in New Space, we observe in dialogue with all our customers several trends moving New Space closer to Legacy Space. We are past the years of only demonstrating concepts and New Space is today offering solutions for critical societal services and defence applications. This entails we need to improve time in orbit and time in orbit. We need a responsive industry capable of delivering on-demand and rapidly evolving its systems to meet constant upgrades in demands for more data, lower latency, higher resolution, greater coverage, etc. Customers need to trust that the platforms they buy will serve their purpose for 5+ years in orbit without failures. They demand higher reliability systems for less cost. Our answer to this trend is New Space 3.0.With New Space 3.0, we are setting a new performance standard for small satellites, looking beyond launch success and evolving tech capabilities to address mission longevity, availability and reliability. Kongsberg NanoAvionics is very proud of our 100percent success rate in achieving contact with all our satellites after launch, with zero dead-on arrivals. We are furthermore very proud of our 92.3% mission full-lifetime success rate (with an industry average of 72.7percent).Several steps have been taken to bring us into the New Space 3.0 standard: 1) enhanced and prolonged radiation testing of all subsystems; QUICK BYTESSATELLITES ARE INCREASINGLY INTEGRATED INTO EUROPEAN DEFENCE STRATEGIES, EMPHASISING ENHANCED SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, SECURE COMMUNICATION LINKS, AND IMPROVED INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING CAPABILITIES.
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