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Flexell and Kongsberg NanoAvionics to supply solar arrays for South Korea's K-LEO national-security constellation

Flexell Space has signed a multi-million euro contract with Lithuania-based Kongsberg NanoAvionics to supply solar arrays for K-LEO, South Korea’s sovereign low-Earth-orbit national-security constellation. Hanwha Systems is developing the satellites, and NanoAvionics says the award advances its global smallsat expansion strategy.

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The award is a commercial win that expands Kongsberg NanoAvionics’ global smallsat footprint and supply-chain linkages, reinforcing its role as a European bus and subsystem supplier (see source:16cf1c97-e3f5-4a43-ae92-c1b68bed5fb9).
The contract is for a sovereign national-security LEO constellation—part of a broader trend of governments funding resilient, military-capable LEO architectures; the U.S. SDA recently awarded $3.5B for 72 Tranche 3 LEO tracking satellites, underscoring rising defence investment in space (see source:dbdad5c9-7a09-4026-963a-9c1582cd5d5d).
A multi-million-euro solar-array agreement highlights competition and capacity in the smallsat supply chain for high-performance, mass-produced LEO hardware, relevant to suppliers and integrators developing lightweight, high-specific-power arrays (see source:f43a1914-ffbd-4cdc-9974-a8ec4d46646a).

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