NovaWurks partners with NorStar Space Data

Los Alamitos, California – NovaWurks Inc., a provider of high technology space products and services, and NorStar Space Data Inc. (NSDI), a Montreal, Canada commercial venture developing a privately owned satellite based information system, have an agreement for NovaWurks to provide the Space Segment for the NorthStar satellite constellation. Under this agreement, NovaWurks will develop the Space Segment specification, satellite design and concept of operations, which will lead towards the design, construction, test, launch, and early on-orbit operations of the Space Segment. 

 

“We are proud to be selected as a partner for the NorthStar system and are excited to be working with a like-minded corporation committed to fundamentally changing the way space products are brought to consumers,” said Talbot Jaeger, founder and Chief Technologist at NovaWurks. “Our support will be provided through Arkisys, a new entity recently founded to provide large scale systems engineering and integration using cellular technology.”

 

NovaWurks is pioneering a new approach for designing and building satellites where space systems are constructed by aggregating mass producible elements called satlets. With the NovaWurks Hyper-integrated Satlet, or HISat as the basic building block for the NorthStar space segment, the system will offer commercial capabilities to the marketplace.

 

NORTHSTAR, being developed by NSDI, is an information system that includes a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of 40 satellites to provide unique data sets on the ecological systems of Earth and utilizes Space Situational Awareness technology to track objects in space. 

 

Employing hyper spectral and infrared imaging technology, the NorthStar satellite constellation will enable understanding of the ecological systems of Earth, and how they may be affected by natural resource and infrastructure development.

 

 “The revolutionary cellular technology developed at NovaWurks enables considerable flexibility in the NorthStar space segment design and operation at significantly reduced cost,” said Stewart Bain, president and CEO of NSDI.