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Kleos Space’s Third Smallsat Mission Prepped For Launch

January 2, 2022 by editorial

Kleos Space S.A. (ASX:KSS, Frankfurt:KS1) has confirmed their Patrol Mission (KSF2) satellites are on track to launch onboard the SpaceX Transporter-3 mission that is targeted for January 13th and have successfully passed the final technical milestone with satellite builder Innovative Solutions In Space (ISISPACE).

The Patrol Mission satellites traveled from the Netherlands to the launch integration facility at Cape Canaveral and integrated into the launch vehicle by Spaceflight Inc. Prior to transport, the satellites successfully completed System Assembly Integration Testing (SAIT) with ISISPACE over a six-week period, including a system checkout and mechanical inspection, battery charging and fueling.

The transport of the Patrol Mission satellites confirms the satellites are mission ready. The launch will increase Kleos’ reconnaissance capability to three clusters of four satellites each, making a total of 12 satellites patrolling against illegal activities, such as piracy, drug smuggling and border security challenges.

Launching into a 500-600 km Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), the four Patrol Mission satellites expand Kleos’ data collection capability by up to an additional 119 million km² per day. They also enable Kleos to increase its average daily revisit rate over a 15-degree latitude area of interest to around five times a day.

Kleos successfully launched its Scouting Mission satellites into a 37-degree inclination in November of 2020 and their Vigilance Mission cluster into a 525 km SSO in June 2021. The firm’s fourth cluster, the Observer Mission, is scheduled to launch in mid-2022. Flown in a formation of four, Kleos’ smallsats detect and geolocate radio frequency transmissions to within 300 meters, enhancing the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for governments and commercial entities.

Kleos Space CEO, Andy Bowyer, said, “We are rapidly building our constellation to raise the volume of data available to our customers. Each new mission features enhanced hardware and software capability, leveraging the learnings of earlier launches. The improved collection capability of the Patrol Mission is key for our government and commercial data subscribers. The value of our independent geolocation data grows in line with revisit rates, as it enables subscribers to use the data to establish pattern of life behavior or tip and cue with existing datasets to improve the identification of illegal maritime and land-based activity.”

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