SpaceQuest, Ltd.

SpaceQuest, Ltd.
Private
Industry spacecraft, engineering, computer hardware, consulting ground systems
Founded 1994
Headquarters Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Key people
 Dr. Dino Lorenzini, Chairman & CEO
Mark Kanawati, Vice President
Products spacecraft and spacecraft components
Number of employees
 10 (2014)
Website http://www.spacequest.com/

SpaceQuest, Ltd. is 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]

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] Some of their projects include:

References

  1. 1 2 "Success Stories". SpaceQuest.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-22. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ Aprize Satellite
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