Created: 2022-02-06
Updated: 2024-01-20
Company - Quantum Space
Product/Service - Ranger
- Classification
- In-Space Transportation
- Category
- Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
In-Space Communications Relay
In-Space Manufacturing
On-Orbit Servicing
In-Orbit Inspection
Beyond-LEO Remote Sensing
In-Space Logistics
Transport Service (LEO-GEO)
- Fields
- Moon
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2024
Quantum Space is a commercial space infrastructure and services company aimed at disrupting the current norms of the industry. Building the first commercial lunar robotic outpost.
Bringing together veteran space heavyweights, we are leading the next commercial Space frontier with the development of our robotic outpost, that will serve multiple users with deploying satellites, hosting payloads and acquisition of data and logistics services via customizable missions from locations in lunar and Earth orbits.
Plans to develop platforms hosting payloads in cislunar space serviced by robotic spacecraft.
“We’re trying to transform the way we deploy and operate spacecraft,” said Steve Jurczyk, co-founder, president and chief executive of Quantum Space, in an interview. “We’re really an in-space services company, and those services are enabled by a new platform called an outpost, which is a spacecraft designed to be serviceable.”
The outpost, he said, would consist of two components. One is a spacecraft bus that serves as a platform for hosting payloads, using modular “plug-and-play” interfaces. The other is a spacecraft that would deliver payloads to the platform and install them using robotic manipulators.
Data and Information
Generating first of a kind information gathered by space-borne technology equipment.
Payload Hosting
Carrying payloads for automated experiments in a deep space environment.
In-Space Testbed
Proffering flight and data experimental environment for new and emerging technologies.
Logistics Services & Satellite Deployment
QS-1: Establishing the Space Superhighway
Quantum Scout mission objectives include:
- Producing space situational and space domain awareness data products
- Hosting customer payloads
- Advanced cislunar navigation methods
- Autonomous station keeping
QuantumNet
Each Scout will deliver multiple services including:
- Space domain awareness
- Space weather forecasting
- Positioning, navigation, and timing
- Communications
- Significant onboard compute capabilities for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
- Headed to a sun synchronous destination in Lower Earth Orbit, the spacecraft will simulate a sensor asset or node in the company’s QuantumNet architecture.
- Reprise Space Systems LLC, better known as SEOPS, is providing mission integration services and its U.S.-built deployer, Equalizer.
- The company is creating a modern, high-speed connectivity network, dubbed QuantumNet, which will deliver always-on, fast connectivity everywhere in deep space, from GEO and cislunar space and well beyond the isolated far side of the moon.
Status Comment / Notes
Scout-1 is scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Transporter 10 mission no earlier than March 2024.