MDA Aurora Supply Chain Supported by Beyond Gravity
MDA Aurora Supply Chain Supported by Beyond Gravity
Will Provide Constellation On-Board Computers with Integrated Receivers and Antennas
The transition from analog to digital satellite technology will be supported by Beyond Gravity as a supplier to the MDA Space Aurora satellite product line.
“This agreement marks a significant milestone for Beyond Gravity’s Electronic Solutions business unit, reflecting the company’s strong position in the commercial space market.”
Kurt Kober, Beyond Gravity
The company will provide 252 “constellation On-Board Computers (cOBCs)” with integrated navigation receivers and antennas for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. The cOBC provides satellite command & control, reconfiguration and precise GNSS satellite positioning in combination with the provided GNSS antennas. The unit is highly reliable and optimized for high volume production. The delivery of the On-Board Computers is set to begin this year. The MDA AURORA supply chain will help support product deliveries for anchor customer Telesat’s Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation Telesat Lightspeed, an innovative, advanced global network that will bring enterprise-class connectivity to customers worldwide.
“We are very excited to collaborate with MDA Space on the development of MDA Aurora and to play an important role in the visionary Telesat Lightspeed mission,” said Oliver Grassmann, EVP of the Satellites Division at Beyond Gravity.
"This contract with MDA Space is a testament to our strategic product development and reaffirms our strong position in delivering innovative and reliable solutions to the commercial space sector as our advanced and proven constellation On Board Computers are essential for satellite constellation missions, ensuring robust performance and reliability,” said Kurt Kober, vice president of Electronic Solutions at Beyond Gravity. “This agreement marks a significant milestone for Beyond Gravity’s Electronic Solutions business unit, reflecting the company’s strong position in the commercial space market.”
Designed to meet the changing technical and business requirements of the satellite industry, the software-defined MDA Aurora product line provides operators with unparalleled flexibility and functionality, dramatically enhancing constellation performance at reduced cost and time to market.
“Reflecting the dawn of a new era of digital satellite communications, we are proud to introduce AURORA, our transformational software-defined satellite product line,” said Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA Space. “Delivering best-in-class satellite performance, attractive economics and more cost-effective constellation solutions, we are honored to have already secured two customers for AURORA, including Telesat as the anchor customer.”
Key features of the MDA AURORA product line include:
A new class of standardized and modular software-defined satellites enabled by a suite of innovative digital payload technologies that meet multiple non-geostationary orbits and frequencies, with dynamic in-orbit reconfiguration, maximizing delivered capacity and quality of service to users with unprecedented power efficiency.
A scalable regenerative on-board processor with a built-in software-defined packet router, optimizing communication routes within a constellation between user links, gateway links and optical inter-satellite links.
A family of digital beamforming-enabled electronically-steered direct radiating arrays with direct RF conversion and native beam hopping capability compliant to DVB standards.
An innovative constellation software suite comprised of advanced onboard flight telecom software, a real-time digital payload simulator and a scalable constellation network manager.
An advanced satellite platform, designed for constellations and optimized for digital payloads and high volume manufacturing.
An efficient and modular digital payload solution designed for advanced manufacturing leveraging automated production lines and AI-enabled robots, cobots and high-skilled assemblers using augmented reality to accelerate mass production, enabling faster delivery at substantially reduced cost.