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Space

Kongsberg NanoAvionics Receives Los Alamos Contract for Cube Satellite for ESRA

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

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Kongsberg NanoAvionics Receives Los Alamos Contract for Cube Satellite for ESRA

Pictured is a Kongsberg NanoAvionics microsatellite bus (Kongsberg NanoAvionics Photo)

The U.S. subsidiary of Lithuania's Kongsberg NanoAvionics said that it has received a contract from Los Alamos National Laboratory for a microwave-sized cube satellite to carry the lab's Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis (ESRA) payload. Los Alamos has said that ESRA will be "the first Los Alamos space experiment to fly on a commercially produced satellite (as opposed to a satellite produced by a defense contractor or by Los Alamos) and the first to use commercial ground stations to communicate…

Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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