Company - BlackStar Orbital Technologies
Product/Service - SpaceDrone
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Transport Service (Re-Entry)
Space Tug
Reusable Satellite
Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)
- Fields
- Reusable
Space Capsule
- Status
- Early stage
- First launch
- Not announced
- Delta-V: 1400m/s w/60kg hardware
- Propellant: HPH Monoprop
- Refuel Capability: Yes
- Customer Defined Configurations
- S-Band TT&C / X-Band CD&H
- Last Mile Delivery back to Earth
- Designed around 100 re-uses
- HFMC, renowned for its innovative mining technologies, and BlackStar Orbital, a leading force in commercial space operations, bring together an unparalleled combination of expertise, innovation, and vision. The partnership will focus on leveraging these strengths to enable the extraction of resources from asteroids and their safe return to Earth.
- The cornerstone of this partnership is BlackStar Orbital's cutting-edge BlackStar-C, an advanced reusable "micro-shuttle" spacecraft. The BlackStar-C is uniquely capable of undertaking these missions, navigating the challenging space environment to reach asteroids, collect the extracted resources, and deliver them safely back to Earth.
- BlackStar-C: $1,250,000 (200 kg payload)
- BlackStar-LEO and BlackStar-M: $5,000,000 (500 lbs payload)
- BlackStar-X: $7,000,000 (10,000 lbs payload)