Created: 2020-12-23
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - Arkisys
Product/Service - The Port, The Cutter
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
In-Space Assembly
Robotic Space Station
Persistent Platform
On-Orbit Servicing
- Fields
- Automated Microgravity Laboratory
Reusable
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2026
- Under a SpaceWERX Small Business Innovation Research contract, Arkisys, Novawurks, Motiv Space Systems, Qediq, iBoss and Texas A&M University will demonstrate how they would assemble a three-axis stabilized satellite with the robotic arm on the Arkisys Port Module.
- The satellite to be assembled on the ground will be comprised of at least three Novawurks Slegos, box-shaped modules that provide capabilities like pointing, information processing and data storage. The Arkisys-led team also is likely to attach a camera or other payload to prove the utility of the new spacecraft.
Building Satellites On-Orbit: A new Service for ISAM Operations, 2023 SBIR Phase II
Arkisy, who is building the world's first robotic Space Outpost for Assembly, Integration and Resupply called the Port, is teaming up with iBOSS, an innovative provider of space products and services, to design advanced space architectures for assembly and aggregation of satellite spacecraft in orbit and beyond.
Arkisys Leading Pioneering Team to Explore On-Demand De-Orbit Services, 2024-09-26.
Arkisys Selected to provide Concepts for Servicing Constellations, 2024-11-13.
Sidus Space and Arkisys ‘leap forward’ in space operations in 2025, 2025-03-25.
- The LS-3 mission features an integrated and dedicated post launch connectable interface, the iSSI™ developed by iBOSS™, which is one of the connectable interfaces approved for the Arkisys Port Module platform.
- Sidus is believed to be the first spacecraft provider to fly a connectable interface that could allow for post launch modification or augmentation.
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News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkisys Science the Port | Event | 2021-02-24 | |
| Arkisys & Orbit Fab Team Up to Build the Future of Advanced Orbital Refueling | News | 2021-02-04 |