Aerospace Capital LLC
Aerospace Capital designs and manufactures CubeSat separation systems based on the in-house technical solutions. The company is privately held and provides cost-effective, quick, and reliable satellite adaptation for the launch, possible remote fir-check operations and in orbit satellite deployment.
Aerospace Capital also designs and manufactures of electronic units, design of structural components, strength analysis, development of mechanism and mechanical locking systems. The company is specialized in space robotics, mechatronics, electronics and drives and spacecraft design.
Among Aerospace Capital customers are Open Cosmos, Telnet, University of Rome La Sapienza, University of Koshice, King Saud University.
Company History
Aerospace Capital was formed in 2014 by Valeriya Barashkova, Alexandr Serkin and Andrei Karandaev. Barashkova worked at launch operator GK Launch Services as Marketing Communications Specialist when she co-founded the company. Serkin is founder and CEO of GK Launch Services and Director General at International Space Company Kosmotras. Karandaev was Senior Expert at ISC Kosmotras.
On March 21st, 2021, the company successfully separated 9 CubeSats on the GK Launch CS500-1 Mission that included 12U deployers in 4x3U and 2x3U+6U configurations, and a sequencer. The separation was carried out for the Foundation for the Promotion of Small Scientific and Technical Enterprises (Innovation Promotion Foundation, or Bortnik Foundation). Primary payload was the 500kgs weighing South Korean CS500-1 MicroSat with 37 CubeSats in this RideShare mission.
On August 9th, 2022, Aerospace Capital launched 16x 3U CubeSats developed for the ‘Space-π project’ by FASIE. The company produced four 12U deployers to fit the 16 CubeSats. All satellites have been assembled by participants of the FASIE project. The satellites were launched as secondary payload on the Khayyam & RideShare Mission on the GK Launch’ Soyuz-2.1b launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazachstan. Primary payload was the 650kgs weighing Iranian Khayyam MicroSat remote sensing satellite, named after the 11th Century Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam.
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Resources
www.aerospacecapital.ru
www.space-companies.com
www.gklaunch.ru
www.waveup.com
www.glavkosmos.com
www.wikipedia.org
www.spacepi.space
www.reuters.com edition August 9th, 2022
www.aljazeera.com edition August 9th, 2022
www.everydayastronaut.com
www.geoscan.ru