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titania

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  • Optical communications
  • Customer: Dstl
Technology demonstration mission

We are building the Titania satellite for Dstl which will feature multiple payloads demonstrating and characterising high-speed free space optical uplinks and downlinks for UK Defence and Security applications.

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customer

DSTL

data speed

10 gigabits per second

spacecraft

Faraday Bell

the mission

Titania will accelerate the development and adoption of space-based optical communications, allowing our Armed Forces the ability to operate in an increasingly contested environment.

The Titania mission will demonstrate 10 gigabits per second optical communications from orbit, which in the right conditions is up to 139 times faster than the average UK home broadband. The spacecraft will feature multiple payloads demonstrating and characterising high-speed free space optical uplinks and downlinks for UK Defence and Security applications.

The space segment of the Titania mission will utilise the In-Space Missions ‘Faraday-Bell’ satellite bus and Software Defined Radio payload.

The Titania space mission will accelerate the development and adoption of space-based optical communications, allowing our Armed Forces the ability to operate in an increasingly contested environment. The Titania satellite will be used to support the UK space sector and provide a solid foundation on which to conduct experimentation into FSOC and allow the science to be developed.

Missions

Upcoming missions

  • Launching 2025
  • Re-configurable in-orbit
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Azalea

In-Space Missions is working with BAE Systems to design and build three Azalea Cluster 1 satellites to deliver high-quality information and intelligence in real time to our customers. Azalea will use a range of sensors to collect radar and radio frequency (RF) data, which will be analysed by on board machine learning on edge processors to deliver the resulting intelligence securely, anywhere in the world while still in orbit.
  • Payload partners from Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan
  • 5 year mission lifetime
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Faraday Dragon

We are working to finalise partners and payloads for Faraday Dragon, an Asia-Pacific regional satellite rideshare mission. Faraday Dragon 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, low-cost rideshare service. The Faraday Dragon mission has been awarded funding from Phase 2 of the UK Space Agency’s International Bilateral Fund to develop novel Asia-Pacific payload technologies that will fly on the satellite. The high-profile project brings together, for the first time, established and emerging space entities from Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand.
  • Optical communications
  • Customer: Dstl
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Titania

The Titania satellite will feature multiple payloads demonstrating and characterising high-speed free space optical uplinks and downlinks for UK Defence and Security applications. Titania will accelerate the development and adoption of space-based optical communications, allowing our Armed Forces the ability to operate in an increasingly contested environment.