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[[Home|🏠]] > [[Partners]] > CesiumAstro **Website**: https://www.cesiumastro.com/ >[!summary] >CesiumAstro is an aerospace and defense company specializing in active phased array and software-defined radio technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company develops high-performance communication, sensing, and networking systems for satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other mission-critical platforms. CesiumAstro’s modular hardware and software solutions support a range of applications, including secure data transmission, radar, and telemetry. With in-house design, manufacturing, and testing capabilities, the company focuses on delivering scalable, reliable systems for commercial, government, and defense customers. ## 🌍 Missions ### SDA Tranche 2 CesiumAstro was selected as a subcontractor for Rocket Lab's [[SDA Tranche 2 - Transport Layer]] contract. 🔗 [[Rocket Lab Selects Subcontractors to Support SDA Satellite Constellation Development]] ### NASA Starling Part of of [NASA's Starling](https://www.nasa.gov/smallspacecraft/what-is-starling/) mission, CesiumAstro was selected to provide crosslink radios and antennas for the MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Network) experiment. The CommPacks were installed on each of the four cubesats launched on [[039 - Baby Come Back]] ## 🚀 Launches %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table launch_date as "Date", location as "Location", vehicle as "Vehicle", target_orbit + " | " + payload_mass as "Orbit & Mass", outcome as "Outcome" from "Launch/Launches" where contains(customer, [[CesiumAstro]]) sort launch_date desc ``` %% | File | Date | Location | Vehicle | Orbit & Mass | Outcome | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------- | | [[Launch/Launches/039 - Baby Come Back.md\|039 - Baby Come Back]] | 2023-07-18 01:27 | [[Locations/Launch Complex 1.md#Launch Pad B\|LC1-B]] | [[Launch/Electron.md\|Electron]] | 1000 km \| 99.45° \| 86 kg | ✅ | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## 🛰️ Space Systems ### Vireo Multi-Beam Communications Payload https://www.cesiumastro.com/systems/vireo A complete solution for uplink and downlink opperations from LEO, the Vireo payload supports to 8-beam opperation with independently steerable, shapable beams. Jam resistant and reconfigurable on-orbit to meet evolving threats. | Specification | Value | | --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | | Frequency Range | Tx 17.5 GHz to 21.2 GHz Rx 27.5 GHz to 31 GHz | | Polarization | RHCP or LHCP selectable at manufacturing | | Size | Tx 27 cm x 23 cm x 16 cm Rx 18 cm x 15.5 cm x 15.5 cm | | Mass | Tx 14.5 kg Rx 7 kg | | Lifetime | 7 to 12 years in LEO at 1000 km | | Baseplate Temp. | -24 °C to 61 °C Operational | | EIRP | 45 dBW to 49 dBW aggregate at boresight | | G/T | 5 dB/K 300 K scene temperature | ![[Pasted image 20250302180643.png]] ![[Pasted image 20250302181043.png]] ### CommPack Cross-Link Communications Payload https://www.cesiumastro.com/applications/isl Part of NASA's Starling mission, CesiumAstro’s CommPack payload includes two S-band antennas, the [[CesiumAstro#🛰️ Space Systems#SDR-1001 Software Defined Radio|SDR-1001 software-defined radio]], and their carrier-sense multiple access/time-division duplexed (CSMA/TDD) waveform enabling mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) in space. The satellites use CommPack to establish and maintain the dynamic communications network between the spacecraft in the swarm. [📰 News Release](https://www.cesiumastro.com/press-release/cesiumastro-celebrates-successful-tests-of-its-commpack-cross-link-communications-payloads-on-nasas-starling-mission-achieves-trl-9-status) ![[Pasted image 20250303002028.png]] ### SDR-1001 Software Defined Radio https://www.cesiumastro.com/products/sdr-1001#specifications A high-performance, compact, software-defined radio designed to operate in LEO and airborne environments, SDR-1001 is suitable for demanding RF, digital signal processing, and communications applications supporting custom waveform development or DVB-S2/DVB-S2X and CCSDS modems. - 4x 200 MHz Tx channels - 4x 100 MHz Rx channels - TDD and FDD operation - Tunable from 300 MHz to 6 GHz - Tx up to 500 Mb/s on single channel - 1000BASE-X, UART, and SpaceWire interfaces - FPGA Development Kit™ for user-customizable waveform development - Redundant boot flash with automatic failover and watchdog timers - Onboard telemetry sensing - Compact design with thermal pillars | Specification | Value | | ------------------------ | --------------- | | DC Input Voltage | 9 V to 13 V | | Baseplate Operating Temp | -24 °C to 61 °C | | Mass | 110 g | ![[Pasted image 20250303003049.png]] ![[Pasted image 20250303003029.png]] ## 📰 News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table published as "Published" from "News" where contains(partner, [[CesiumAstro]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Published | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | | [[News/Rocket Lab Selects Subcontractors to Support SDA Satellite Constellation Development.md\|Rocket Lab Selects Subcontractors to Support SDA Satellite Constellation Development]] | May 06, 2024 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%