Jul 8, 2025 | Missions
The two-year project will investigate modular mission architectures that facilitate communication services for spacecraft traveling to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Westminster, CO (July 8, 2025) NASA has awarded Advanced Space a follow-on Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to develop design reference missions (DRMs) for Communication, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (CPNT) capabilities compatible with NASA’s LunaNet framework. The project, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, focuses on developing mission concepts for a standards-based, interoperable Lunar and Martian CPNT relay network. Advanced Space has partnered with Firefly Aerospace on this project, using Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle as a transfer stage for this relay network. Elytra provides responsive on-orbit mobility and servicing across cislunar space. (more…)
Jun 13, 2024 | External News
WESTMINSTER, CO, 13 June 2024 — Advanced Space LLC., a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce that NASA has selected two of our Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects to proceed to Phase II for further development. “We are grateful for these selections as we appreciate the trust NASA continues to place in our work pushing the state of the art for critical technologies that will enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space,” said Advanced Space CEO Bradley Cheetham. “These two technologies will make missions more robust and resilient through onboard autonomy and will increase the scale with which important spaceflight safety related operations can be conducted.” (more…)
May 29, 2024 | CAPSTONE Mission
From completing the mission to exceeding expectations, our spacecraft flew its 18-month mission at the Moon and will continue flying.
WESTMINSTER, CO, 29 May 2024 – A project that began as a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project celebrated an important milestone this month: Advanced Space’s pioneering Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) satellite completed its original 18-month mission for NASA. (more…)
May 29, 2024 | CAPSTONE Mission
Mission to continue testing near-lunar communication and navigation technologies along with new software tools.
WESTMINSTER, CO, 29 May 2024 – Advanced Space’s pioneering commercial satellite continues to operate beyond its expected 18-month contracted mission, which was originally supposed to end this month. Begun with a mission to demonstrate the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS™) (more…)
