Dragonfly Bus
Dragonfly Aerospace
The Dragonfly Bus is Dragonfly Aerospace’s largest satellite platform, engineered to support more complex, power-intensive and data-intensive payloads. With a combined bus and payload mass of up to 400 kg, it offers increased continuous power delivery, volume, and system redundancy — ideal for missions requiring high data throughput, extended operational lifespans, or more power-intensive payloads […]
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Payload capacity
- 250 kg
- Power
- 800 W
- Data rate
- 2,600 Mbps
- Design life
- 8 years
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Class
- 150 kg (up to 400 kg combined bus and payload)
- Design life
- 8 years
- Energy storage
- up to 2400 Wh
- Pointing control stability
- < 0.002°/sec (3-sigma)
- Pointing control accuracy
- < 0.02° (3-sigma)
- Slew rate
- up to 2.5°/sec
- Control frequency
- 10 Hz
- AOCS
- Fully automated, through target tracking
- Propulsion
- Xenon Electric Propulsion System, 28 mN thrust, up to 1850s Isp
- S-band tmtc
- 400 kbps down, 150 kbps up
- X-band data downlink
- up to 2.6 Gbps
- Solar array peak power
- up to 1500 W
- Orbit average power (OAP)
- up to 800 W
- Peak power
- 4.2 kW
- Supply voltage
- 28 V / 48 V (ready)
- Available payload mass
- up to 250 kg
- Available payload peak power
- up to 4.0 kW
- Electrical interfaces (TMTC)
- CANbus, RS422/RS485, GigE
- Electrical interfaces (Data)
- LVDS / SpaceWire / SerDes / GigE, Optional HSDR 8 TB (Scalable)
About
The Dragonfly Bus is Dragonfly Aerospace’s largest satellite platform, engineered to support more complex, power-intensive and data-intensive payloads. With a combined bus and payload mass of up to 400 kg, it offers increased continuous power delivery, volume, and system redundancy — ideal for missions requiring high data throughput, extended operational lifespans, or more power-intensive payloads such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The bus is built with a modular design, enabling custom configurations and streamlined integration for commercial and institutional missions alike, delivering mission versatility, robust performance, and future-ready scalability.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.