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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | spacecraft, engineering, computer hardware, consulting ground systems |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Defunct | 2020 |
| Fate | Acquired by AAC Clyde Space |
| Headquarters | Fairfax, Virginia, USA |
Key people | Dr. Dino Lorenzini, Chairman & CEO |
| Products | spacecraft and spacecraft components |
Number of employees | 10 (2019) |
| Website | www.spacequest.com |
SpaceQuest, Ltd. (also known as AAC SpaceQuest) was a spacecraft components and engineering company located in Fairfax, Virginia, which focuses on the operations of small satellites.
The company designs, develops, constructs, launches and operates microsatellites and spacecraft components. SpaceQuest qualifies its components for use in space by flying them on its own satellites. They also operate a fleet of low earth orbiting satellites, which are used for remote monitoring as well as tracking the location and status of large vessels at sea.[1][needs update][third-party source needed]
SpaceQuest's customers include US and foreign universities, NASA, the US Air Force, the Canadian Space Agency, commercial aerospace companies, and foreign developers of microsatellites.[1][2][third-party source needed] Some of their projects include:
- FalconSAT 3 & 5, satellites developed by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
- AprizeSat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 commercial communications satellites for SpaceQuest[3]
- ExactView 6,7
- AO-51, amateur radio satellite.[citation needed]
- Genesis I and Genesis II, inflatable space habitats Bigelow Aerospace.[citation needed]
- Thea and Brio, launched in December 2018 on Spaceflight's SSO-A mission, a pair of 3U cubesats hosting experimental payloads for commercial customers.[4]
On October 15, 2020, AAC Clyde Space announced that an agreement had been reached to acquire all shares in SpaceQuest Ltd. The acquisition was completed in December 2020. [5]
- ^ a b "Success Stories". SpaceQuest.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-22. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
- ^ "SpaceQuest to Develop Bus for US Air Force Academy's Falconsat-3 and FalconSat-5 Missions" (PDF) (Press release). SpaceQuest.com. 2003-08-15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
- ^ "AprizeSat". astronautix.com. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
- ^ "January 2019". SpaceQuest Ltd. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "AAC Clyde Space completes acquisition of U.S SpaceQuest". aac-clyde.space. 2020-12-30. Retrieved 2023-01-12.