Apex Announces it is Carrying a Payload for Booz Allen as Part of the Aries Call to Adventure Mission
Apex has enabled customer payloads on its Aries Serial Number (SN) 1 Call to
“We are excited to have Booz Allen as one of our customers on this first Aries mission. We look forward to continuing the collaboration as both companies push forward the space industry,” said
Apex’s Call to Adventure mission is unique and allows multiple customers to leverage transport on a single spacecraft. Booz Allen, one of the prime customers on the spacecraft, successfully enabled their payload. The collaboration between Apex and Booz Allen is a strong signal to industry by bringing together the best of rapid bus manufacturing with a leading space data solutions provider and integrator for both public and private sectors.
“Booz Allen is thrilled to collaborate with Apex, and excited to be a part of the successful launch of their first Aries bus,” said
Apex’s first satellite set a historical record as the fastest design and build of any small production satellite. Typical manufacturers spend years designing and months building, while Apex completed the clean-sheet design, engineering work, full assembly, integration, test, and launch in just 12 months of our 200kg Aries. Apex is currently producing additional Aries busses in 2024, with current lead times of a few months.
As the space domain becomes increasingly contested, degraded, and operationally-limited, ongoing public-private partnership demonstrations are imperative to allow for the rapid deployment of next-generation edge compute SDA capabilities. As the
This joint effort supports Booz Allen’s ongoing initiatives to integrate emerging technologies within space domain awareness mission applications. This collaboration aims to demonstrate Booz Allen’s software, which is being developed to enable next-generation autonomous edge compute SDA sensors aboard spacecraft for critical mission needs across both public and private sectors including safety-of-flight analyses, conjunction assessments, and other SDA-driven activities in deep space.
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