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Sep 7, 2026
TowerHOST
CubeSats.
TowerHOST
Smallsats.
TowerHOST
Microsats.
TowerHOST
Commercial operators are building broadband constellations.
Paul MayerHOST
This puts them on par with a pretty close race here between them and Kyle Morris executing on their stratify that we spoke about last week and in our interviews yesterday.
Paul MayerHOST
at Smallsat and with Troy.
Paul MayerHOST
This mission is currently being developed as phase two of JAXA's commercial removal of debris demonstration, CRD2, and it's going to target an upper stage rocket body that's roughly 11 meters by four meters and weighs approximately three tons.
Paul MayerHOST
So a pretty robust and pretty difficult first target to grapple with and deorbit.
Jen DeMarcoHOST
The portfolio includes flight-proven RF amplifiers, bidirectional amplifiers, frequency-translating modules, and integrated front-end assemblies that span from UHF through KA band.
Jen DeMarcoHOST
These components are targeted specifically for CubeSat and SmallSat platforms rather than adapted defense hardware and address the swap and environmental requirements of commercial space missions.
Jen DeMarcoHOST
Triad says its hardware has flown on more than 600 commercial LEO payloads, including SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare missions, such as Transporter 2, Transporter 4, and Transporter 5.
Tim RenierHOST
In other space news, the White House has set a target for the U.S. to support more than 1,000 launches and re-entries annually by 2030.
Harrison LambertHOST
Edge
Paul MayerHOST
Aerospace and Redwire announced at Smallsat that the two were joining together to establish a U.S. manufacturing partnership.
Paul MayerHOST
Redwire will manufacture Edge Aerospace data processing units and network switches under a license agreement.
Paul MayerHOST
This license agreement will see just a regular per unit royalty effectively paid to Edge Aerospace.
Adam KallGUEST
... because we travel so far, but the delta v benefit of it, we're up to, I think it's five kilometers per second of delta v packed into a very small spacecraft that is just zipping around low-Earth orbit.
Tariq MalikHOST
Adam, when you say small spacecraft, how, how large a spacecraft are we talking about? Is it, like, the size of a washing machine with creepy tentacle arms, or, uh, is it smaller than that? Is it bigger? Can you tailor it for CubeSats versus SmallSats versus LargeSats? Like, what, what are you aiming for as the sweet si- uh, uh, sweets, sweet spot at KMI? Sorry.
Tariq MalikHOST
[laughs]
Adam KallGUEST
So the sweetest spot is rideshare size.
Adam KallGUEST
... because we travel so far, but the deltaV benefit of it, we're up to I think it's five kilometers per second of deltaV packed into a very small spacecraft that is just zipping around low-Earth orbit.
Tariq MalikHOST
Adam, when you say small spacecraft, how, how large a spacecraft are we talking about? Is it, like, the size of a washing machine with creepy tentacle arms, or, uh, is it smaller than that? Is it bigger? Can you tailor it for CubeSats versus SmallSats versus LargeSats? Like, what, what are you aiming for as the sweet si- uh, uh, sweet s- sweet spot at KMI? Sorry.
Adam KallGUEST
So the sweetest spot is rideshare size.
Adam KallGUEST
If you can fit not as the primary payload but a secondary payload to a rocket, massively reduces your cost to launch.
Adam KallGUEST
... because we travel so far, but the delta v benefit of it, we're up to I think it's five kilometers per second of delta v packed into a very small spacecraft that is just zipping around low-Earth orbit.
Tariq MalikHOST
Adam, when you say small spacecraft, how, how large a spacecraft are we talking about? Is it like the size of a washing machine with creepy tentacle arms, or, uh, is it smaller than that? Is it bigger? Can you tailor it for CubeSats versus SmallSats versus LargeSats? Like, what, what are you aiming for as the sweet si- uh, uh, sweet s- sweet spot at KMI? Sorry.
Adam KallGUEST
So the sweetest spot is rideshare size.
Adam KallGUEST
If you can fit not as the primary payload, but a secondary payload to a rocket, massively reduces your cost to launch.
Rama AfulloGUEST
So I really love the Above the Clouds.
Rama AfulloGUEST
And actually, we'll be in Utah as well next month for the SmallSat conference.
Rama AfulloGUEST
And I believe their tagline is Cloud Above the Clouds or something like
Richard ByrdHOST
that.
Mike GrussHOST
Hello, I'm Mike Gruss with Space News.
Mike GrussHOST
And we are here at the SmallSat show in Salt Lake City.
Mike GrussHOST
We're in the Salt Palace.
Mike GrussHOST
And today I'm joined by Lauren Graves, the Chief Technology Officer at FrontGrade.
Mike GrussHOST
Thanks to FrontGrade for their support.
Mike GrussHOST
All of our coverage from SmallSat this week is available on spacenews.com. Have a great day.
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