Beyond Gravity will deliver robotic-arm thruster-pointing mechanisms for Swissto12’s small geostationary satellites. The precision pointing systems are intended to support attitude control and station-keeping on the company’s compact GEO platforms, and potentially reduce launch and production costs.
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The deal advances Swissto12’s effort to field compact GEO platforms and complements its recent investment in a new Madrid R&D hub to speed satellite systems and user-terminal development (Swissto12 opened a new engineering and R&D facility in Madrid: https://hype.aero/?story=6b4ba361-394d-4029-b2ed-7ace998bf646).
The contract underscores growing commercial demand for precision on-orbit robotic hardware and manipulation capabilities, a trend reinforced by NASA’s recent study contract to fly robotic technologies on orbital service vehicles (NASA Contracts Momentus for Robotic Systems Study on Orbital Service Flight: https://hype.aero/?story=fb688afd-f1b2-44a2-84be-28449cdeec8b).
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