Small satellites are growing up: getting bigger, more powerful and capable of supporting increasingly complex missions. That doesn’t mean, however, their price tags and time to market are falling back to the legacy space days and their hundred-million-dollar budgets and years-long development.
Earlier this month at the Small Sat Conference in Logan, Utah, LeoStella, a U.S.-based small satellite design and manufacturing company, announced the commercial availability of its next-generation, SDA-class satellite bus, the LS-300. At its exhibit booth, LeoStella showcased a scale model of the LS-300 and detailed its enhanced features.
Known for its state-of-the-art manufacturing process, rapid production and proven and reliable operational efficiency, LeoStella now offers a small satellite bus with increased power and larger and heavier payload capacity. While the LS-300 is larger than LeoStella’s existing satellite bus platforms, the company can manufacture and deliver all its satellites at scale, facilitating the development of ten- to fifty-satellite constellations for commercial and government use.
Leading up to the announcement, our team shared the news with key media contacts and facilitated interviews with LeoStella’s CEO. Below is some of the ongoing LS-300 coverage:
- GeekWire, “LeoStella super-sizes its platform for small satellites as it takes aim at new markets”
- SpaceNews, “LeoStella unveils its largest smallsat to target SDA contracts”
- Via Satellite, “LeoStella CEO Kienberger Explains New LS-300 Bus Platform and Smallsat Demand“
- Geospatial World, “LeoStella Unveils Details of Largest Spacecraft LS300”
- Parabolic Arc, “LeoStella Upsizes Satellite Bus for Space Development Agency Contracts”
- Satellite Evolution, “LeoStella debuts advanced small satellite bus platform, the LS-300”
- Space News (August issue), “Going Large: Big Constellations No Longer Necessarily Mean Small Satellites”
- CNBC, “Investing in Space: A guide to satellites“
In addition to driving these results, we secured and designed the exhibit booth, helped with video production and managed the creation of a small model of the LS-300.
Stay tuned for more news from LeoStella!