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York Space Systems Introduces More Powerful LX-Class Spacecraft for Government, Commercial Missions

By Rachel Jewett

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

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York Space Systems Introduces More Powerful LX-Class Spacecraft for Government, Commercial Missions

Size comparison of York Space System’s S-CLASS (left) and larger, more powerful new LX-CLASS (right). Photo: York Space Systems

York Space Systems is adding a larger and more powerful platform called the LX-Class to its family of spacecraft platforms. The new platform is built off of the York S-Class, and reuses 90 percent of the S-Class hardware and software design. Like the S-Class, it can accommodate a wide range of missions from communications to Earth observation. But it offers three times the power generation, and a 300 percent increase in payload mass. The LX-Class can accommodate a payload mass up…

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