SAN FRANCISCO — York Space Systems established contact inside three hours of the Dec. 1 launch of a industrial space-as-a-service mission for CACI International.
CACI supplied an optical communications demonstration and a resilient position, navigation and timing payload for York’s Bane industrial mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare flight, York announced Dec. 4.
The mission “expands upon York’s rapidly growing industrial business and flight qualifies quite a few recent technologies which shall be implemented on York’s future industrial constellations,” York CEO Dirk Wallinger told by email.
Bane was the primary York mission to serve multiple industrial customer on a single platform. It was also the primary satellite to be flown from York’s unclassified industrial mission operations center in Denver, Dirk Wallinger, York CEO and president, told by email.
York, founded in 2012, has won key military space contracts including a $615 million contract awarded in October by the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency. With its expanding production lines, York is attracted government and industrial customers by offering complete satellite missions through streamlined contracting.
Bane was York’s “second industrial mission executed under our accelerated acquisition and execution program,” Wallinger said.
Melanie Preisser, York executive vice chairman, said in a press release, “We’re proud to have successfully executed one other industrial mission, showcasing our ultra-streamlined industrial acquisition and execution approach. We take great pride in being an end-to-end solution provider, offering integrated services that enable us to satisfy the evolving demands of our government and industrial customers, and the market at large.”
York accomplished construction earlier this 12 months of a production facility designed to spice up the Denver-based company’s capability to greater than 1,000 satellites per 12 months.