METEORITE Satellite Bus
Moog Space Defense Group
METEORITE is Moog’s purpose-built small satellite bus targeting ESPA rideshare and dedicated launches into LEO, MEO, and GEO orbits. The platform carries up to 220 kg payload with 150 W average and 2 kW peak power, supplied from body-mounted and deployable solar panels feeding an unregulated 28 VDC bus. Attitude control achieves better than 60 […]
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 120 kg
- Payload capacity
- 220 kg
- Power
- 150 W
- Largest dimension
- 711.2 mm
- Design life
- 5 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
- Orbital range
- 500–1200 km LEO, MEO, GEO (ESPA class)
- Mission life
- 2–5 years
- Bus dry mass
- 120 kg
- Payload mass capacity
- 220 kg
- Dimensions
- 22 × 28 × 23.65 inches
- Delta-V
- >175 m/s at 200 kg dry
- Payload power (average)
- ~150 W
- Payload power (peak)
- 2 kW
- Bus voltage
- 28 VDC unregulated (25–33 V range)
- Pointing accuracy
- <60 arcsec (1σ)
- Jitter / stability
- <10 arcsec
- Max slew rate
- 2.5 deg/sec
- Radiation tolerance
- 25.5 kRad TID at 0.200 in Al shielding
- Position knowledge
- <4 m
- Propulsion
- Moog ASCENT green monopropellant (AF-M315E)
- CPU
- Moog BRE440 radiation-hardened processor
About
METEORITE is Moog’s purpose-built small satellite bus targeting ESPA rideshare and dedicated launches into LEO, MEO, and GEO orbits. The platform carries up to 220 kg payload with 150 W average and 2 kW peak power, supplied from body-mounted and deployable solar panels feeding an unregulated 28 VDC bus. Attitude control achieves better than 60 arcsec (1σ) pointing accuracy with less than 10 arcsec stability and jitter, with a maximum slew rate of 2.5 deg/sec. The baseline propulsion uses Moog’s ASCENT green monopropellant system delivering more than 175 m/s delta-V at 200 kg dry mass. Avionics are built around Moog’s BRE440 radiation-hardened CPU. Total bus dry mass is 120 kg within a 22 × 28 × 23.65 inch envelope. Position knowledge is better than 4 m. The METEORITE bus supports 2–5 year mission life in the 500–1200 km altitude range with 25.5 kRad total dose tolerance at 0.200 inch aluminum shielding.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.