Orbital ATK-Designed Satellites Demonstrate Affordable Access to Space for U.S. Air Force
15 Aprile 2018 - 3:17PM
Business Wire
Company’s ESPAStar and ESPASat Platforms
Deliver Advanced Capabilities for Multiple Payload
Missions
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, designed the EAGLE (ESPA Augmented Geostationary
Laboratory Experiment) experimental satellite for the U.S. Air
Force’s AFSPC-11 mission that successfully launched on United
Launch Alliance’s Atlas V vehicle April 14 from Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, Florida. The AFSCPC-11 mission included a second
company designed satellite, Mycroft, which is among several
Department of Defense experiments hosted on the EAGLE platform as
separate payloads.
The EAGLE and Mycroft satellites are based on the company’s
ESPAStar™ and ESPASat™ products, which provide modular,
cost-effective and highly capable infrastructure resources for
hosting technology development and operational payloads. The
Orbital ATK-designed EAGLE satellite is the first spacecraft based
on the company’s innovative ESPAStar platform. The ESPAStar vehicle
can accommodate any combination of up to six hosted or 12
separable, free-flyer payloads in low and geosynchronous orbit and
is built to provide an even greater level of access to space.
Orbital ATK designed and delivered the EAGLE satellite under a
contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space
Vehicles Directorate.
After a successful separation from the launch vehicle, EAGLE is
hosting several Department of Defense payloads, including Mycroft,
the second Orbital ATK-designed satellite to be deployed on the
mission. Mycroft, a separable, fly-away experiment, utilized the
company’s ESPASat platform for its flight. ESPASat is designed as
an affordable GEO bus that can be launched as a secondary payload
from an ESPAStar platform.
“Orbital ATK is proud to partner with the U.S. Air Force on the
EAGLE and Mycroft missions,” said Chris Long, Vice President,
National Security Systems at Orbital ATK. “Our unique capabilities
to host separating and non-separating payloads represent a turning
point in affordable access to space for small satellites and
payloads.”
In addition to work performed at the company’s facility in
Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK sites in Commerce, California and
Beltsville, Maryland provided tanks and heat pipes to the EAGLE and
Mycroft satellites.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 14,000 people across the U.S. and in several
international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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