The SmallSat Revolution:

Your World Now!

FISO Telecon
26 October 2016
Peter M. Wegner, CTO Spaceflight Industries
peter@spaceflightindustries.com

What technologies are enabling the small

satellite revolution?

Te c h n o l o g i e s f e e d i n g s m a l l
satellite revolution

Space Segment Moores law

Launch Segment - containerization
Ground Segment cloud processing, on the
horizon

http://spacenews.com/man-behind-moores-law-bankrolling-cubesat-mission/

Containerized Launch!

Protects primary satellite from small satellite

Reduces complexity of Coupled Loads
Enables integration very late in rocket integration flow
Breaks the one rocket = one satellite equation

Launch Schedule

SHERPA The Rideshare Cornerstone

Launch Vehicle
SpaceX Falcon9v1.1
Vandenberg AFB, CA
Q1 2016

ORBIT
LEO, 450 km x 720 km, 97.4
10:30 LTDN

Cloud processing dramatically lowers cost of satellite ground segment, especially in

first year for startups

http://www.sherweb.com/blog/total-cost-of-ownership-of-servers-iaas-vs-on-premise/

S PAC E F L IG H T N E T W O R K S
Spaceflight Networks is building a best in class global
communications network for small spacecraft

New Zealand

Fairbanks

Seattle

Projected operational sites in 2019

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What is the market for small satellite

systems?

The Big Bet:

Global, Real-Time Market
Intelligence
NEED PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE AND COMMUNICATIONS!
(SOUND FAMILIAR?)

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U S E C AS E ( 1 / 3 )
Refinery in Baytown Texas
Energy / Oil Financial services
companies and competitors can
track corporate or global oil supplies
in real time

Full
Empty

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Monitoring Oil Security

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U S E C AS E ( 2 / 3 )
Port of New York
Logistics Analysis, verification and
optimization of logistics
infrastructure including global real
time monitoring

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U S E C AS E ( 3 / 3 )
Fresno California
Agricultural Area
Agriculture Monitoring and
verification of large areas for crop
health and rapid damage assessment
from weather induced events.

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Enabling access to space

Redefining global intelligence

C O R P O R AT E O V E R V IE W

Spaceflight Industries is comprised of two

synergistic lines of business that are leaders
in an emerging $100B market opportunity.
Revolutionizing access to
space to fuel the global
intelligence revolution.

K E Y S TAT I S T I C S

Founded in 1999

Headquartered in
Seattle, WA with office
in Herndon, VA

130 Employees

$50MM 2016E revenue

~100% CAGR 2013-2016

$292MM contracted backlog

REF ERENCE
INVESTORS
Mithril Capital Management

Operating the unifying

platform and analytics
infrastructure to understand
the planet in real time.

RRE Ventures
Vulcan
Razors Edge Ventures
In-Q-Tel

PSLV Launch with 12

Spaceflight Customers

S PAC E F L I G H T H AS
T R AN S F O R M E D C O M M E R C I AL
AC C E S S T O S PAC E
Pioneered the first commercial spaceline
buy seats, not rockets

Continuing to break launch records: over 90

satellites launched to date, 150 satellites in
backlog
Purchased the first dedicated rideshare SpaceX
Falcon 9
Opened the Indian PSLV rocket for commercial
customers
Contracted to fly the first commercial spacecraft
to the Moon
Awarded the first (and only) US Government
GSA contract for commercial launch services
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D E D IC AT E D R ID E S H AR E

SSO-A

GTO-A

SSO-B

SSO-C
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B L AC K S K Y I S
C ATALY Z I N G A
G E O S PAT I AL
RE V OLUT ION
We have built a multi-sensor
global intelligence platform
the rst Bloomberg Terminal
for Spacethat allows our
customers to observe and
understand our planet in
near real time.

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S PAC E C R AF T R O AD M AP

Pathfinder Block 1

Global Block 2

Global Block 3

Spacecraft Mass (kg)

48 kg

55 kg

TBD

Resolution (GSD)

1.00 m

1.00 m

TBD

Aperture (cm)

24 cm

24 cm

TBD

Bands

4
RGB

4
Pan, RGB

TBD

Imaging Mode

Stills

Stills / Video (1fps)

TBD

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1000

TBD

Images Per Day

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T H E A B I L I T Y T O U N D E R S TA N D T H E G L O B A L
P O P U L AT I O N I N R E A L T I M E

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R E V IS IT P E R F O R M AN C E

Revisits per day with 60 spacecraft

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B L AC K S K Y S G L O B AL I N T E L L I G E N C E
P L AT F O R M P R O V I D E S T I M E LY &
AF F O R D AB L E U N D E R S TAN D I N G O F O U R
P L AN E T

State of the Art:

Digital Globe

Our Approach:
BlackSky

$2500 / image

$90 / image

Call center ordering

Web / app ordering

4 wks for delivery

90 min for delivery

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A U N I F Y I N G P L AT F O R M T O V I E W AN D
U N D E R S TAN D M U LT I P L E D ATA S T R E AM S
GeoSpatial Content and
Taskable Sensors

Customer Oriented Unifying

Global Intelligence Platform

Sensors

Data Sources

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B L AC K S K Y P L AT F O R M S E R V IC E S
Content

Multi-Source
Content
Visible Imagery
Radar Imagery
AIS (ship tracking)
ADS (airplane tracking)

Insights

On-Demand
Data
On-Demand
Imaging
Persistent
Surveillance

Activity
Monitoring
Conflict Events
Humanitarian Events
Supply Chain Events

Site
Monitoring
Port Monitoring
Pipeline Monitoring
Border Monitoring
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Questions?

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PET ER WEGNER
CTO, Spaceflight Industries
peter@spaceflightindustries.com