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Muon Space Tapped By Space Force For Weather Monitoring Satellite Demos

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025

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Muon Space Tapped By Space Force For Weather Monitoring Satellite Demos

Rendering of the Muon FireSat-SBEM satellite equipped with the enhanced Quickbeam-SBEM payload. Image: Muon Space

U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) on Wednesday said it has awarded Muon Space a $44.6 million contract to provide three demonstration satellites equipped with a new variant of the company’s Quickbeam multispectral imaging payload for weather monitoring that would also perform wildfire detection and monitoring for other customers. The contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III Other Transaction Authority agreement, which goes beyond the typical research and development, and prototyping efforts included in SBIR Phase…

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