It's Business Time

Irvine 01 is a U1 CubeSat built by high school students participating in the Irvine CubeSat STEM Program (ICSP), a consortium of six high schools from Irvine, California. The Irvine 01 mission is an educational mission that gives high school students the experience of building, testing, and controlling a nano-satellite, with the aim of developing interest and talent in the science and engineering fields.

According to Rocket Lab, "It's Business Time will also carry a satellite for GeoOptics Inc., built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems provides end-to-end nanosatellite solutions to governments, universities, and commercial organizations."

According to Rocket Lab, "NABEO is a new drag-augmentation subsystem that will be tested for the first time as part of the It’s Business Time mission. The NABEO drag sail is a subsystem created to passively de-orbit inactive small satellites. The small sail is an ultra-thin membrane that can be stored tightly within a spacecraft and then deployed once the satellite reaches the end of its orbital lifespan. The reflective panels unfold to 2.5 square meters to increase the spacecraft’s surface area, causing it to experience greater drag and pull the satellite back into the Earth’s atmosphere, enabling much faster de-orbiting and reducing the amount of space junk in Low Earth Orbit."

Spire satellites are built to conform to the CubeSat standard. The satellites are multi-sensor. Data types such as Automatic Identification System (AIS) service are used for tracking ships, and weather payloads measure temperature, pressure, and precipitation. AIS data is meant for use in illegal fishing, trade monitoring, maritime domain awareness, insurance, asset tracking, search and rescue, and piracy.

Two Fleet Space Proxima satellites will form the foundation of Fleet's global IoT communications constellation.