Company - True Anomaly
Product/Service - Jackal
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- Space Cybersecurity
In-Orbit Inspection
Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
Space Domain Awareness (SDA)
- Fields
- In-Orbit Inspection
- Status
- Development, Launched
- First launch
- 2024
True Anomaly is thrilled to announce our On-Orbit Range service and Digital Range application, offering live and digital solutions for:
✔️ Space operator training
✔️ High-fidelity test events
✔️ Threat replication
✔️ Tactics validation
- True Anomaly and a second VICTUS HAZE performer, Rocket Lab, will both demonstrate their ability to build rendezvous and proximity operation (RPO) capable space vehicles and command and control centers with a delivery target of Fall 2025.
- In addition to this VICTUS HAZE selection, True Anomaly was also recently awarded a $1.63M Direct to Phase II SBIR contract through the SpaceWERX TacRS Challenge. Under that effort, True Anomaly will demonstrate rapid integration of payloads to the Jackal AOV, proving its utility as a low-cost, multi-role spacecraft for a variety of national security space missions.
Status Comment
The first two Jackal spacecraft are flying on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission in 2024, but they failed. Third mission in late 2024 was more succesful, but many of the planned services are not yet tested.
Notes
- True Anomaly lands $17.4M contract from US Space Force for space domain awareness tech, 2023-09-21.
- Startups, universities selected for accelerator focused on space domain awareness (SpaceNews, 2023-11-08).
- True Anomaly’s first Jackal AOVs ready for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base, 2024-02-08.
- True Anomaly CEO finds the silver lining in the startup’s anomalous first mission, 2024-04-09.
- Space startup True Anomaly cuts workforce, SpaceNews, 2024-04-25.
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