SabreSat
A New Breed of Satellite
Overview
About SabreSat
Whether your mission requires persistent, high-resolution imagery or resilient communications, Redwire’s highly flexible SabreSat VLEO platform delivers.
Built in the United States and designed for performance, endurance, and cost-effectiveness, SabreSat can be produced in volume to meet the needs of large constellations.
SabreSat
Product Features
Optional Air-Breathing Technology
Air-breathing engines change the calculus for maneuvering in flight by harvesting, ionizing, and accelerating low-density air to use as fuel, extending operations and enabling true maneuverability without regret.
Digital Engineering Support Included Ahead of Production
With Redwire’s suite of digital engineering tools, explore a variety of mission use-cases through live simulation of your constellation
Product Specifications
| SIZE (STOWED): | Modular |
| PAYLOAD SIZE: | 100 cm x 80 cm x 40 cm |
| PAYLOAD MASS: | ~200 kg |
| TOTAL SPACECRAFT WEIGHT : | ~400 kg |
| POWER AVAILABLE: | Orbit & Configuration dependent, up to 5,000 W OAP (EOL) |
| PROPULSION: | Electric or air-breathing (optional) |
| ORBITAL ALTITUDE: | > 150 km |
| MISSION LIFETIME: | Up to 7 years |
| MISSION APPLICATIONS: | ISR, Communications, Navigation, Earth Science |
Mission Spotlight
DARPA’s Otter Mission
Redwire is leveraging its SabreSat VLEO spacecraft design for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Otter program.
The mission will demonstrate cutting-edge “air breathing” electric propulsion technologies that harvest low-density air while in flight to use as fuel to extend satellite operations and enable true maneuverability without regret.
Mission Spotlight
Skimsat for the European Space Agency
Together with Thales Alenia Space, Redwire is studying the use of VLEO for the European Space Agency’s Skimsat program. Skimsat is a VLEO satellite that aims to significantly reduce the cost of Earth observation while increasing performance by operating at substantially lower altitudes.
Skimsat stands to completely change the Earth observation market by challenging the traditional use of high altitudes that avoid air drag and by creating a new business model for high resolution imaging by using short lifetime and lead time and thus offering the market the benefit of more cost-effective satellites
Andrew Stanniland
CEO of Thales Alenia Space in the U.K.
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