Smallsat

SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust talks with a panel of launch providers about the state of the smallsat launch sector.

The smallsat industry doing the stuff the bigsat insdustry couldn't quite pull off.

Dutch smallsat IoT startup Hiber signed a contract with propulsion startup Dawn Aerospaceto use green thruster systems on its third and fourth satellites.

German company building smallsat launcher.

Ochinero said smallsat aggregators face a challenge akin to “herding cats” when trying to get several customers all ready at the same time.

The advantage that Arianespace and SpaceX offer to smallsat developers is price: on a per-kilogram basis, a large rocket is usually less expensive than a small one.