Rideshare Missions
We offer ‘Space as a Service’ through our Satellite Rideshare missions, the world’s first commercial service offering long-life, low-cost, payload flight opportunities for early service and technology demonstration in LEO
We currently have payload space available for our next launch – contact us to discuss your payload and commercial needs.
Satellite Platforms & Spacecraft
- BAE Systems Satellite P10 – a 140kg compact spacecraft solution designed for payload accommodation flexibility at an affordable price with full redundancy
- BAE Systems Satellite P20 – a 225kg compact spacecraft platform designed for High Thrust and High Delta V missions in orbits from 375km to 600km
- BAE Systems Satellite P30 – a 300kg compact spacecraft platform suitable for orbits 400km to 600km with flexible payload accommodation, affordability, and full redundancy
- BAE Systems Satellite EO P20-300 – a cost optimised high-performance, very high-resolution (<50 cm) earth observation small satellite
- BAE Systems Satellite EO P30-300 – a high-performance, very high resolution (60cm), wide swath earth observation small satellite with complimentary full motion video up to 30 frame-per-second
Digital Data Products
Teaming with our colleagues at BAE Systems, we offer the Azalea Radio Frequency Mapping capability which collects data in specific bands over critical user areas of interest. Data from BAE Systems Azalea Cluster 1, targeted for launch 2025, will deliver high-quality information and intelligence in real time from space to our customers.
InSpace Rideshare
Fly your payload on our Faraday Dragon rideshare mission, launching 2026!
We are working to finalise partners and payloads for Faraday Dragon, an Asia-Pacific regional satellite rideshare mission, launching in 2026. Faraday Dragon is a small satellite platform with a 5 year mission lifetime that will fly multiple payloads for regional space players including government, commercial, financial, research and educational organisations and we offer our customers a full end-to-end ultra low-cost rideshare service. We currently have payload space available for our next launch – get in touch using the contact form below.
- Demo and service delivery up to 5 years lifetime
- Formation flying
- Intersatellite
- LEO to GEO links.
ABOUT US
Founded in 2015, In-Space Missions was acquired by BAE Systems in 2021 and together we design, manufacture, integrate and test the next generation of space missions and dual-use technologies from our sites and facilities in the UK.
Working with our colleagues at BAE Systems, we can offer specialist technologies in waveforms, electronics, antennas, digital signal processing and analytics. Our technology supports our customers’ communications, intelligence, imaging and positioning needs in bold and innovative ways.
Today we design, build and operate full satellite missions and deliver space-enabled complex solutions for global customers for use on Earth, near space and deep space
LATEST NEWS
In-Space Missions Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems, has been awarded further funding from the UK Space Agency to progress its Faraday Dragon…
BAE Systems and the University of Portsmouth have launched the UK’s first ever degree apprenticeship in Space Systems Engineering. Applications are now open for the…
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