Axient Space and Orbotic Systems join forces
Axient Space’s IGOR mission will host Orbotic Systems’ Deorbit Drag Device (D3) to further demonstrate D3’s ability to modulate spacecraft drag force while controlling orientation and orbital decay, the company has said.
Axient’s Space Monkey team is poised to become creator and collaborator of CubeSat missions allowing space experiments to be conveniently achievable.
Space Monkey serves the R&D community with “on-time, on-cost bus development”, which enables the greater purpose and utility of CubeSats for technology development and mission support.
Space Monkey, is scheduled to launch IGOR , a 3U CubeSat, in Q4 2024 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
After launching aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket, IGOR will be deployed by Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle utilising Xtenti’s FANTM-RiDE dispenser.
The mission will perform a series of experiments to assess the stabilising and pointing accuracy of magnetorquers on a 3U CubeSat.
“Members of Axient’s Space Monkey lab were pleased to work with personnel from Orbotic Systems on one of the easiest and most straight-forward payload integration procedures that we have done. For all future Space Monkey projects, we anticipate using Orbotic Systems’ D3 unit to comply with the FCC’s upcoming regulations for deorbit of spacecraft,” said David Rosprim, Space Monkey Lab programme director.
