SpaceQuest, Ltd.
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| Private | |
| Industry | spacecraft, engineering, computer hardware, consulting ground systems |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Fairfax, Virginia, USA |
Key people |
Dr. Dino Lorenzini, Chairman & CEO Mark Kanawati, Vice President |
| Products | spacecraft and spacecraft components |
Number of employees | 10 (2014) |
| Website | http://www.spacequest.com/ |
SpaceQuest, Ltd. is a spacecraft components and engineering company located in Fairfax, Virginia, which focuses on the operations of small satellites.
The company designs, develops, constructs, launches and operates microsatellites and spacecraft components. SpaceQuest qualifies its components for use in space by flying them on its own satellites. They also operate a fleet of low earth orbiting satellites, which are used for remote monitoring as well as tracking the location and status of large vessels at sea.[1]
SpaceQuest's customers include US and foreign universities, NASA, the US Air Force, the Canadian Space Agency, commercial aerospace companies, and foreign developers of microsatellites.[1][2] Some of their projects include:
- FalconSAT 3 & 5, satellites developed by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
- AprizeSat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 commercial communications satellites for SpaceQuest [3].
- ExactView 6,7
- AO-51, amateur radio satellite.
- Genesis I and Genesis II, inflatable space habitats Bigelow Aerospace.
References
- 1 2 "Success Stories". SpaceQuest.com. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
- ↑ "SpaceQuest to Develop Bus for US Air Force Academy's Falconsat-3 and FalconSat-5 Missions" (PDF) (Press release). SpaceQuest.com. 2003-08-15. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
- ↑ Aprize Satellite
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